The co-founders of the Aviation-Impacted Communities Alliance (AICA) urged the FAA’s Research, Engineering Development Advisory Committee (REDAC) at its Oct. 5 meeting to support six aircraft noise research proposals the Alliance wants FAA to conduct in order to better understand and measure the impact of aircraft noise, especially from NextGen operations. The AICA represents 67 grassroots community groups and nine national organizations around the country whose members are directly experiencing the adverse impact of aircraft noise and emissions from FAA NextGen airspace changes and procedures that tightly focus flight paths over them. Many, if not most, of these communities are located 10 miles or more from airports, well beyond the 65 DNL noise contour that FAA uses to mark the outer extent of significant aircraft noise impact.
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