From: <portersquare@googlegroups.com> on behalf of "Anita D. McClellan" <adm@anitamcclellan.com> Date: Sunday, August 26, 2018 at 9:34 PM To: Porter Square Neighbors Association <portersquare@googlegroups.com> Subject: [Porter square] airplane-noise clicker makes reporting aircraft-noise complaints to MassPort & public officials very easy Have you noticed a problem with noisy Logan flight paths during past 5 years over North Cambridge, Somerville, Belmont, Arlington, Winchester, and Watertown? Previous to June 2013 these towns experienced little to no airplane noise. Logan’s flight paths were fanned out, which resulted in a distribution of noise between Greater Boston towns.                 Since June 2013 and MassPort implementation of RNAV—"Area Navigation, a form of Performance- Based Navigation that makes use of satellite/GPS routing and waypoints and replaces conventional ground radar and Air Traffic Control"-- departures from runway 33L (departing NW from Logan) makes aircraft noise truly debilitating over residential neighborhoods in these communities. The FAA has dubbed RNAV flight paths Highways in the Sky. In winter, the NW wind means runway 33L has up to 3000 departures a month; in summer the wind changes and 33L is down to 1500 departures a month over these communities. — https://www.bostonwestfairskies.org The WSJ had a recent piece on a handy noise-reporting device, Airnoise Button: “responsible for 226366 noise objections from 10 cities...Registering a detailed aircraft noise complaint online in San Diego requires filling in 10 fields and looking up the offending flight through the airport authority’s mapping program. But Ms. Pardo, a 62-year-old industrial designer, has taken an easier route. She uses a new invention called the Airnoise Button that allows her to register a complaint simply by pressing it. 'I start pushing that button at 6:33 a.m. when the noise starts and I stop at about 11:30 p.m.,' she said. Airports around the country are coping with a flood of complaints from irate, button-armed individuals…” Read all about Airnoise Button here https://www.wsj.com/articles/airplane-noise-complaints-are-skyrocketing-i-st... Anita McClellan living in No. Camb. under RNAV off runway 33L -- View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/portersquare/topic-id/message-id -- To post to this group, send email to portersquare@googlegroups.com Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/portersquare To unsubscribe from this group, send email to portersquare+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Porter Square Neighbors Association" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to portersquare+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to portersquare@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/portersquare. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/portersquare/6C0D7A2C-A7BE-48C5-956D-5639D.... For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.