Good Morning, Palm Coasters,

Your complaints are having an effect, thank you!  Keep them coming!  We have done our best to make in easy to file a complaint on the PeaceforPalm website.  You don't have to give your name or address, just state the street or location.  And you don't need a tail number of a plane, we are monitoring them.  So, please keep them coming!

Please share our website, https://peaceforpalm.com/  We need more signatures!  Family, Friends, Neighbors, Co-workers, Pets (kidding)...we need signatures of all supporters!  (This list will not be released without a court order.  Your privacy is as valuble as your peace.)  Thank you to the many volunteers handing out flyers!  Much appreciated!

Onward!

The Peace For Palm Team

P.S.  We are fighting hard behind the scenes!  Here's a sample....

County Commission Chairman, Andy Dance, forwarded some complaints to DEPUTY County Attorney, Sean Moylan.  Mr. Moylan tried to give the usual canned response and "our hands are tied" excuse.  Here's my reply to them:

Dear Mr. Moylan, Mr. Dance, Mr. Sieger, and All,

Thank you for your February 24, 2026, response, which restates the familiar position that federal preemption leaves the County with no meaningful ability to address the severe, ongoing disruptions from flight school operations at Flagler Executive Airport (KFIN).

Residents find this explanation increasingly unconvincing and, frankly, insulting—especially given the County's history of securing millions in federal and state grants (AIP and FDOT funding) to expand and upgrade the airport, including runway extensions that directly enabled the surge in flight training activity, without ever conducting a required or updated noise compatibility study (Part 150 under FAA regulations) when the airport transitioned from rural status, KXFL, around 2015 to KFIN, Flagler Executive Airport.

Thousands of Palm Coast homeowners experience daily: relentless low-altitude overflights (often 200–500 feet AGL, sometimes lower), disruptive touch-and-go patterns over neighborhoods, and leaded fuel emissions that pose documented health risks. Such dismissals no longer hold water when residents can track flights via ADS-B, measure decibel spikes, and document patterns that clearly extend far beyond airport boundaries, far beyond our neighborhoods.  There are complaints beyond the Z, U, and LL Sections of Palm Coast only for Mr. Sieger to reply, “you’re in the flight pattern”.  This canned excuse merely gives these flight schools a free pass with no accountability.

The County's own "Fly Friendly" brochure and voluntary curfew guidelines have proven that operator behavior can be influenced: training flights are noticeably reduced or delayed on Sundays and holidays, demonstrating compliance is achievable when prioritized. Yet certain pilots and schools flagrantly ignore other recommendations (higher pattern altitudes, delayed turns over appropriate areas, avoidance of residential zones), while the County continues to cite "hands tied" by FAA rules and grant assurances—assurances that, ironically, the County accepted alongside funding that fueled this very growth.

This selective inaction—profiting from grants and expanded operations while refusing accountability for predictable impacts—raises serious questions about compliance with federal grant obligations (including environmental and community compatibility considerations) and supports claims of a de facto taking under the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Article X, Section 6 of the Florida Constitution. Frequent low overflights that substantially interfere with residential use and enjoyment, without compensation.

We demand the County move beyond explanations and take immediate, verifiable steps:

1. Demand a FAA Part 150 noise study (or equivalent updated noise analysis) be conducted since the airport's rural-to-executive transition and runway extensions; if not, explain WHY, given grant-funded growth and residential impacts.

2. Publicly Report any observed low-altitude violations (below 14 CFR § 91.119 minima 1000’ over congested areas) to the FAA Flight Standards District Office (FSDO) and provide residents with a timeline for follow-up.

3. Commit to aggressive outreach/incentives for uniform adherence to voluntary procedures (modeling the Sunday/holiday success), including public reporting of non-compliance via the (4-month-old, now defunct) noise dashboard.

4. Public correspondence with County Commissioners, airport management, flight school representatives, FAA liaisons, and affected residents to discuss enforceable solutions and grant accountability.

Absent substantive progress and transparency on these points, residents will have no choice but to pursue formal remedies, including FAA complaints under 14 CFR Part 13, inverse condemnation litigation, and escalation to state/federal oversight bodies regarding grant-funded operations without adequate mitigation.

Lastly, Mr. Moylan, you mentioned “you have contacted the flight schools and they cite required training that does not align with our procedures.”  Which flight school?  Which training requirement?  And what procedures?  Please clarify.

We expect a direct, detailed response—not further deflection.

Sincerely,  

775 Petitioners 

Peace for Palm