[KLGA]: An Aerial View of Flushing While on the Whitestone Climb This is a neat video, fun to watch and less than four-minutes long … you may want to play it again. Plus, it helps to illustrate the problems NextGen is … Continue reading
IMPACT: NextGen-Noise 8-15-2015 KLGA LAGUARDIA AIRPORT (680 acres) New York, NY Four Nearby Instrument Airports: [KJRA] 6 W ; [KJFK] 9 SE ; [KTEB] 10 NW ; [KEWR] 14 W ;(ave. distance: 10 nm) Total Based Aircraft:0 Operations & ATC: … Continue reading
It should come as no surprise that President Trump supports the disastrous ATC privatization proposal being pushed by Bill Shuster, A4A, and a few airlines. It’s a bad idea, all the way around. We have a hard enough time getting … Continue reading
Summer is upon us, and Yanks love to fly on distant vacations, oblivious to the enormous carbon cost associated with that privilege. Shall we take a quick trip to Europe? Maybe lunch in London and zip back to LA for … Continue reading
In an editorial opinion, Newsday‘s Editorial Board is helping to push the illusion that privatizing ATC will help. They are all wrong. Newsday is a daily paper on Long Island. They have been at the epicenter of impacts from two … Continue reading
Janet McEneaney is President of Queens Quiet Skies, a group advocating for relief from aviation noise impacts related to both the LaGuardia [KLGA] and Kennedy [KJFK] airports. These are two of the three major airports that serve the NYC area. … Continue reading
FAA is presently being sued by groups across the nation, due to their botched NextGen implementation. It looks like another lawsuit may be initiated, seeking relief for residents in Bethesda, MD. See the Bethesda Magazine article (archived copy below, in … Continue reading
The Heathrow Airport west of London is hands-down the busiest UK hub for transatlantic commercial passenger flights. Just as we see in the U.S., where NextGen is creating health problems and destroying communities, hundreds of thousands of residents are severely … Continue reading
There is a new Chair for the Congressional Quiet Skies Caucus, actually two: Representatives Tom Souzzi (pronounced “swah’-zee”) and Eleanor Holmes-Norton were elected as co-chairs, to replace Representative Grace Meng. Both Souzzi and Meng are from the NYC area, serving Queens and … Continue reading
Here’s a video and two NYU journalism projects about the impacts caused by LaGuardia [KLGA] air traffic. By far, the worst impacts by KLGA flights are in the Flushing area, where residents endure repetitive noise and air pollution for arrivals to … Continue reading