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New Research Gleaned From FAA Data Shows Nearly 8,000,000 Americans Are Impacted By High Levels Of Airplane Noise – Nearly 20X The Number Of Impacted Americans Reported By The FAA.

An Open Letter To Department Of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg From FAA NextGen Victims

FAA Finally Releases Neighborhood Environmental Survey (NES) Showing Americans Are Significantly More Bothered By Airplane Noise Than The FAA Had Been Reporting To Congress And That The FAA’s Methods For Modeling Noise Were Very Out-Of-Date.

"The FAA has literally ruined our home for us with the implementation of NextGen. We get over 150 departure planes a day at 8000-11000 feet, which are often times stacked with arrivals at 1500-2500 feet. We live 20 miles from the airport. We’re reasonable people and we know the planes need to fly somewhere, we just ask the entire community shares the noise burden making all of our homes liveable and more importantly, enjoyable. Please put an end to this misery."

“Over 250-300 low altitude jets, aircraft and helicopters now fly daily over our homes and the protected green space and very high fire hazard zone of the Santa Monica Mountains in CA. This never happened before FAA implemented SoCal Metroplex/Nextgen and decided to destroy our quality of life by increasing the decibels from 45 to over 85DB, minute after minute. By electing to concentrate all aircraft departures from 2 Airports - Burbank and Van Nuys over this same community in a perilous fire zone, our own healthy and safety is jeopardized. Reverse Nextgen now."

"The FAA is destroying our lives. The constant low flights over my home due to RNAV is terrorism and torture. These flights are a criminal assault on my community. Those in Massport and the FAA who have authorized this terrorism are criminals who should face prosecution for the suffering they have caused on the people they have tortured with anxiety, lack of sleep, and fearful anticipation of constant unending jet noise over our homes so that the airlines can save money on fuel."

"The constant noise from aircrafts above my house starts at 6am and goes in until 12 even 1am. I sit in my house with the windows closed. Can't even sit in the backyard anymore. Our quality of life has gone down. We worked hard to afford our homes and now may be forced to leave because someone decided that airplanes are priority above people. Our children breathe in the toxic emissions from these low flying planes. I hope someone will listen and make a change. Does anyone have a conscience?"

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About NextGenRelief

The origins of NextGen began in the early 2000s, when the Department of Transportation (DOT) announced that they would be beginning a multi-agency, mult-year modernization of the air traffic system that would extend into the future at least 25 years. According to the FAA, implementing and maintaining NextGen programs will cost about $37 billion through 2030.

The goals of NextGen are relatively straight-forward. With the increasing rise of air traffic in the United States, the FAA felt they needed a way to streamline air traffic in order to allow more planes in the sky to accommodate growing passenger and cargo traffic. NextGen promises to reduce emissions by having planes fly more “efficient” routes, to standardize access to weather information, to reduce separation minimums between aircraft, to improve communications across the airspace system, and to improve onboard technology.

In its vast consultations with aviation experts (both at the FAA and outsourced to contractors like MITRE), the FAA appears to have very conspicuously left out one key constituency – the communities located underneath these new “efficient” flightpaths. As these communities were to soon find out, that was not an oversight on the FAA’s part. Since the first implementation of NextGen in Phoenix, Arizona (which resulted in a lawsuit against the FAA by the City of Phoenix), communities across America have found themselves the victims of non-stop air and noise pollution by these newly “efficient” flightpaths.

Communities that once experienced 10-20 flights overhead daily now found themselves subject to 200-300 flights a day overhead, at elevations thousands of feet lower than previous flightpaths. The FAA has insisted that “no new noise” has been created by NextGen flightpaths. Yet, the numbers speak for themselves.

Media Coverage Of FAA’s NextGen Air And Noise Pollution

Since the implementation of NextGen, there’s been a steady escalation of media coverage of the problem. A recent Google search of the following search terms yielded some pretty astonishing results...

Congress And NextGen

The original roots of NextGen are in a bill Congress passed in December of 2003, the “Vision 100 – A Century Of Aviation Reauthorization Act.” The goals of the broad-based bill were many, but the particular outcome of the bill that has directly led to the problems related to ...

NextGen And Health Impacts

For the citizens living under the NextGen flightpaths, there is an incredible amount of concern about the cumulative impacts of hundreds of low-flying airplanes releasing toxic particulate matter emissions daily over communities.

NextGen And Community Response

There are currently almost fifty separate community activist groups across the country at the city, county and regional level trying to get the FAA to work with them to do something about the devastation that NextGen has brought upon their communities...

FAA vs. Communities Around America: A Litigation Timeline

As the first community to instigate litigation against the FAA in the wake of NextGen, the City of Phoenix entered uncharted waters. When the FAA instituted the new NextGen flightpaths in September 2014, the City of Phoenix sued in the U.S. Court of Appeals for The District of Columbia Circuit in June 2015.

FAA NextGen: Myth vs. Reality

There’s so much information floating around about NextGen from multiple sources. The FAA, recently on the defensive with more and more Members of Congress demanding answers, has stepped-up its propaganda campaign touting all the amazing benefits of NextGen. In response to the FAA’s NextGen charm offensive, it’s probably a good time to take a step-back ...