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Old January 2nd 19, 05:06 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Default Small Device Drives Airport Noise Complaints


I recall reading that there is a regulation requiring the airport ATIS
broadcast to include a NOTAM "Noise abetment procedures are in effect"
for six months after a complaint is received. But try as I might, I
can't seem to find the reference.

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Small Device Drives Airport Noise Complaints

By Mary Grady , Contributing editor | December 31, 2018

Image: Airnoise

Imagine you live close to a major airport, and since NextGen has
changed many air routes in the last few years, a lot more noisy
airplanes fly right over your house. Now it’s easy for those citizens
to file a noise complaint — instead of facing hours of paperwork, they
can just push a button on a thumb-size device like those used by
Amazon shoppers to order household goods. Barbara Deckert, who lives
in suburban Maryland, told the Washington Post she has filed thousands
of complaints: “Clicking that button is really psychologically
satisfying.”

Airports in areas where dismay over noise is common say they have seen
dramatic increases in complaints since the Airnoise device became
available. According to the Post, officials at BWI believe Airnoise is
why complaints surged from 2,692 in July to 17,228 in August. The
Airnoise website says so far they have logged more than a million
complaints at 29 U.S. airports. They also say they plan to soon
release iOS and Android apps to make it even easier to file a report.

Airnoise airports


Comments (6)

How interesting it is that airplane noise generates push button
devices and apps with which to complain right down to the specific
flight number while noise created by loud cars, trucks, jake brakes,
motorcycles, boom boxes, gunshots, college kids on spring break etc.
merits no mention. Having spent many a night at all major US airports
in the US as well as at many major international airports, my
experience is that these other sources of noice are much more annoying
than overflying airplanes. Do all these complainers resent the
competition that airplanes give their local street and neighborhood
noise or is it that it's simply easier to target flight numbers than
individuals and their license plates?

John Kliewer

Posted by: John Kliewer | December 31, 2018 7:31 PM

I have to wonder how many of those huge increase in complaints
originate from a few malcontents that spend most of their day pushing
the buttons. Make it easy enough to complain and even lazy people will
chime in. The realingment of approach and departure patterns has
certainly increased the noise above certain areas, but it is no fault
of the pilots or their planes. They are just flying the routes
dictated by ATC. The unspoken problem is that most of those airports
were originally built out in the country away from the population, but
then the city grew up to surround the airport. Now the neighbors
complain about the noise even though they knew the airport was there
when they moved in. Airports create commerce, and commerce attracts
land development. Unfortunately airplanes get the blame for poor land
management and government indifference to the communities.

Posted by: John McNamee | January 1, 2019 12:14 PM

Due to how small the aviation community is it has always been easier
to blame aviation for anything! Just look at all the "noise"
restrictions, ridiculous customs rules for aircraft on international
flights, and the stupid TSA rules aviation is now stuck with. If
politicians tried to apply these rules to the average auto driver, or
pedestrian crossing the border, they would get voted out of office.
Just wait until TSA starts enforcing the new drivers license rule for
use as ID to get on an airliner!

Posted by: matthew wagner | January 1, 2019 12:41 PM

'Barbara Deckert, who lives in suburban Maryland, told the Washington
Post she has filed thousands of complaints: "Clicking that button is
really psychologically satisfying."'

Much like pressing the "Walk" button at the street corner - it's makes
you feel good.

Airplane noise is all about perception vs reality. Rather, the "haves"
vs "have-nots". Cars? Well, I have a car, so I guess it's not noisy.
Airplanes? Damn rich people and/or uncaring companies ruining my day!

(Never mind that if/when THEY fly as a passenger on said airline, they
are now the source of the noise).

There's a similar problem in Greenwich, CT. A VERY rich town. In the
fall lots of mansions have hordes of landscapers using leafblowers on
the acres of manicured lawns. So, the "have nots" complained about the
noise and passed noise ordinances limiting the hours that leaf blowers
can be used.

Posted by: Kirk Wennerstrom | January 1, 2019 1:30 PM

This is possibly a wonderful thing for us pilots. Up until now, the
rare-ish legitimate noise complaint could trigger an investigation by
the airport authority. Now there are thousands of complaints (from
even a single person) likely about every single aircraft that flew
over.

Two outcomes seem possible:
1) Airport authorities will add dozens of new staff members (maybe
even hundreds when one citizen can deliver 1000s of complaints) to
deal with all these new complaints. They'll need to procure noise
measuring equipment to determine whether local noise ordinances are
actually violated. This will require more flights by the same aircraft
over the same location while technicians monitor. Then, they might be
able to issue a fine.

2) Airport authorities will just decide it's all just a waste of time
and not bother reading any of them.

I'm guessing #2, unless cities see noise ordinance investigation and
violations as a real revenue opportunity.

Posted by: Steve Miller | January 1, 2019 6:33 PM

People making comparisons of cars, motorcycles, and trucks to
aircraft, do not I've in a direct final approach to Atlanta
International airport(the busiest airport). It's bad when you have to
suspend conversation until passenger jet passes over.
As a matter of fact as I'm sitting in my office making this entry I
hear the planes going over.

James Crane

Posted by: James Crane | January 2, 2019 8:40 AM
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http://gtonpost.com/local/trafficand...c36_story.html

Button offers instant gratification for those plagued by airplane
noise

A San Diego man created a noise button that users can press to file a
complaint about airplane noise. (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post)
By Lori Aratani
December 29, 2018

Barbara Deckert has a new weapon in the war against airplane noise —
and she’s not afraid to use it.

Every time a plane flies over her suburban Maryland home, rattling her
windows and setting her teeth on edge, she presses a small white
button and feels a tiny sense of triumph.

That’s because with one click, Deckert has done what could have taken
her hours to do a few months ago — she has filed a noise complaint
with officials at the Maryland Aviation Administration.

Thanks to the ingenuity of a software engineer from Southern
California, Deckert and hundreds of others with similar beefs, and the
Airnoise button, have an easy way to register their annoyance with the
jets that fly over their homes.

“It’s a fabulous tool,” Deckert said. “Clicking that button is really
psychologically satisfying.”

Officials at airports from Seattle to Baltimore said Airnoise has led
to a dramatic spike in complaints. At Baltimore-Washington
International Marshall Airport, officials are almost certain Airnoise
is the reason complaints surged to 17,228 in August from 2,692 the
previous month. In San Diego, more than 90 percent of the complaints
came through third-party apps like Airnoise.

Barbara Deckert says she has used the Airnoise app to file thousands
of noise complaints over planes that have flown over her home in
suburban Maryland. (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post)

[Noise complaints skyrockets at D.C. -area airports]

Airnoise is the brainchild of Chris McCann, who repurposed the same
plastic Dash Button that Amazon customers use to order toilet paper
and detergent.

(Amazon founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos owns The
Washington Post.)

One click of the red-and-white button and McCann’s software program
sends a detailed complaint directly to the agency in charge.

“Airport authorities don’t make it easy to file noise complaints, but
we do,” McCann’s site boasts. “With the click of a button, instantly
locate loud, bothersome flights, automatically file a complaint and
get back to things that matter to you.”

Barbara Deckert points at her Airnoise data on Dec. 13. (Katherine
Frey/The Washington Post)

McCann launched Airnoise in 2017 to help fellow residents in their
fight about noise from flights at San Diego International Airport,
near his home in La Jolla, Calif. Word quickly spread and soon other
communities’ residents, who are engaged in similar skirmishes, wanted
the buttons.

So far, he has sent out more than 700 of the clickers. As 0f
mid-December, users had filed nearly 1.1 million noise complaints at
29 U.S. airports.

“People want to do something about the problem, but they have lives to
live, kids to raise and they don’t want to spend an hour or two filing
noise complaints,” said McCann, who is also a former Air Force test
pilot. “[Airnoise] is a low-impact way for people to do and say
something about the issue.”

Scott Stevson, who works with the Quiet Skies Coalition group near
Seattle, said the two dozen buttons the group recently ordered, were
quickly snapped up.

Mark Anderson, who lives in Park Ridge, Ill., keeps his on his
nightstand — all the better to report those late-night flights into
O’Hare International Airport. Since he and his wife Mary got their
buttons four months ago, they’ve filed roughly 5,000 complaints.

“It’s almost too easy,” he said. “But these are real complaints.”

Robyn Winder of Hanover, Md., got her button in August — and life
hasn’t been the same since.

“Oh, the joy, the sheer pleasure of pushing that button and seeing the
complaints mount up,” she wrote in response to a reporter’s query. “We
are over 115,000 complaints for BWI, more than 35,000 in just the past
30 days! So now when MAA wants to know ‘which flight bothered you,’ I
have a real answer! ALL OF THEM.”

Even before the arrival of Airnoise, airports had been dealing with a
surge in complaints linked to the Federal Aviation Administration’s
effort to modernize the air traffic system, known as NextGen.

[Are you the person who filed 6,500 noise complaints about National
Airport?]

The multibillion-dollar program is changing the way air traffic is
managed, moving it from radar to satellite navigation. Proponents say
it makes the air traffic system more efficient because it allows
planes to fly more direct routes to their destinations.

But the shift has angered residents, who live in neighborhoods that
are below the new flight paths. Residents in Northwest Washington sued
the FAA over the changes but lost in court. A suit filed by the state
of Maryland is pending.

McCann was one of those affected. He lived in La Jolla for more than a
decade and, other than the occasional stray plane, had not had
problems with noise. But that began to change in fall 2016.

As he got more involved in the issue, he realized it wasn’t easy to
file a complaint with the local airport authority. Those who were able
to figure out how to do so often couldn’t provide the kind of detailed
information that is useful to officials.

He remembered reading a story about a guy who’d rigged a Dash Button
to donate $5 to the American Civil Liberties Union every time he got
angry at President Trump. He figured he could do something similar.

When users press the button, Airnoise uses publicly available data
sources to determine which aircraft is closest to a person’s home. It
gathers information about the flight and sends it to the local airport
authority.

Users sign up via the Airnoise website. With a free account, users can
file up to 15 complaints a month; for $5 a month, they can file
unlimited complaints. The button costs $24. McCann, who has a
full-time day job, says he charges just enough to cover his costs.

The button may make its users feel good, but whether it will be
effective in the battle against airplane noise is unclear. Airport
officials often try to downplay complaints, noting that they are the
work of just a few people. Maryland airport officials, for example,
were quick to note that 80 percent of all the complaints filed in 2018
came from fewer than 100 users of the Airnoise app. McCann said he
tangled with a few airports that early on tried to block reports
generated by Airnoise.

Still, some airport officials say more information is always helpful.

“The bottom line for us is if you are an individual expressing a
complaint about airport noise, we don’t care about how we’re getting
the information,” said Mike Jeck, manager of the noise office for the
Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.

Deckert says she firmly concludes that complaining does make a
difference, so she tries to do her part each day. When her Airnoise
button arrived in August, she hooked it on to a red, white and blue
lanyard so she’d have it with her all the time — in the morning when
she is making breakfast, the afternoon while she is puttering around
the house and in the evening when she is watching her favorite mystery
shows on PBS.

The button has clearly gotten a lot of use: The plastic coating is
partially peeled off. A few weeks ago, the battery gave out. So for
now, she’s using her iPad to file complaints.

“People can try to discredit me, but I don’t worry about that,” she
said. She paused and remembered the day she filed her first complaint
with the Airnoise button.

“It felt so good,” she said. “It’s highly, highly therapeutic. It
makes you feel like you can make a difference.”
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