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Saturday, May 13, 2017

Md. gov. Hogan urges FAA to stop noisy airport technology

WASHINGTON — Satellites are helping guide commercial airliners to more direct routes in and out of airports. But the air traffic control technology and procedures known as NextGen have also increased complaints about airport noise, and Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is demanding that the Federal Aviation Administration do something about it.

In a May 11 letter to FAA Administrator Michael Huerta, Governor Hogan asks the FAA to “immediately return to the pre-NextGen flight patterns” at BWI Marshall Airport and Reagan National Airport.

The FAA has said that NextGen technology and procedures are boosting safety in the skies and also saving the airlines billions of dollars in fuel costs. In his letter, Gov. Hogan acknowledges that the current flight patterns are saving the airlines a lot of money but he wrote, “I will not have the citizens of Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Howard and Montgomery Counties pay a human cost with their health and emotional well-being.”

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The airports and planes were there when you bought the house. Too bad. Don't buy a home near a church if you don't like church bells or near a vol. fire dept if the siren bothers you.

Anonymous said...

Legislate a higher operating cost for airline companies so they realize less revenue causing less taxable income for the state. Brilliant!

Anonymous said...

Sounds like some rich people in some fancy neighborhoods have been complaining to their elected officials. They want the routes to go back to their poor neighborhood lanes.