FAA Flight Path Changes

Submit a noise complaint . . .in 2015, the FAA received only 159 complaints from Maryland for the entire year!

• • Submit a complaint here and include "Resident of the Springfield Community, a founding member of the Montgomery County Quiet Skies Coalition" in the comments

Learn about the MCQSC which the SCA was a founding member.

Website of the Montgomery County Quiet Skies Coalition

See how FAA changes have impacted the distribution of low flying and noisy jet aircraft over Bethesda.

Presentations made to the MWAA Noise Advisory Working Group (WG) 15-Dec

• Community Representatives Plan to MWAA WG 15-Dec-16

• Presentation to MWAA WG 15-Dec-16

Learn more by reading:

• MWAA 2016 Airplane Noise Report

• MWAA 2015 Airplane Noise Report

• FAA Community Update Sept 2016

• Explanation of impact by Reagan Airport

• Bethesda Magazine coverage of Berliner letter March 2017

• Letters from Van Hollen and Leggett

  • See time delayed air traffic around DCA at WebTrack

Background reading:

• • Article NextGEN in a Nutshell

  • Collection of articles on resident complaints

• Renovation at DCA Reagan Airport

  • Palisades residents say noise from planes over their houses has gotten worse - July 2015

• Lead emissions from planes may be costing billions in lost earnings

• Near-airport distribution of the environmental costs of aviation

Send feedback to the FAA & elected officials:

• • Send an email to FAA & elected officials via the forwarding address faa@springfield20816.com which forwards your message to FAA, County and Federal elected officials.

• Submit comments by web forms for Senator Cardin and Reagan Airport

• Sign this Change.org petition

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The FAA has decided to temporarily leave the COVTO waypoint to at its current location over the uninhabited Virginia riverbank and NOT move it closer to the many neighborhoods that line the Maryland side of the Potomac River. We will alert you if this changes.

Proposed Reloation of COVTO Waypoint and Flight Paths to/from DCA (click image to zoom)

Summary of changes before (red) and after (blue) (click image to zoom)

December 2015 (click image to zoom)

December 2014 (click image to zoom)

Dec 2013 (click image to zoom)

Dec 2012 (click image to zoom)

Video

There's a nation organization of communities are working to combat the same problems caused by FAA policies, procedures and flight paths:

• • National Quiet Skies Coalition

  • Congressional Quiet Skies Caucus

Nearby Organizations

• Washington DC Fair Skies Coalition

• Southern Maryland Fair Skies Coalition

Organizations Around the US and World

• • • SaveOurSkies-SantaCruz

• • SkyPosse-PaloAlto

  • SkyPosse-LosAltos

  • QuietSkies-NorCal

  • QuietSkies-LosAltos

  • QuietSkies-LosAltosHills

  • SaveOurSkies-EastBay (for Oakland),

  • SanLorenzoValley

  • QuietSkies-Woodside