- This fight is not about one or two flight paths. Look to the future… "The aviation industry continues to expand rapidly. There is a consensus in Washington, DC that airport capacity will have to increase dramatically - and soon - to keep pace with the skyrocketing ridership. As air-traffic increases, aviation noise issues will be a paramount concern to communities located near airports." - N.O.I.S.E. (National Association to Insure a Sound Controlled Environment) “Congress passed legislation in 2012, FAA Modernization and Reform Act, that permitted the FAA to implement NextGen procedures without any regard to their impact on humans and the environment. The Wake Recategorization or Wake Recat procedure is the key to our misery. Aircraft are brought low into denser air so they can be flown slower and closer together resulting in the skies above communities near and far from airports having been taken over as arrival and departure queues. And if there are new concentrated flight paths, don't confuse that with fewer concentrated flights paths. These concentrated flight paths are proliferating as the goals to date that Congress, the FAA, and aviation industry are primarily concerned about are more and more flights, increasing capacity endlessly, and quicker frequency of arrivals and departures, increasing efficiency. Human health and the environment are being sacrificed for the goals and for an abstract term, the economy. What economy really means with NextGen procedures is industry profits and elected officials who ensure those profits keeping their political office. What it means for citizens is committees, roundtables, task forces, noise studies, noise complaints, initiatives, reports, surveys, and so on until citizens are worn down into silence and acquiesce to the air, noise, and visual pollution of 24/7 low altitude aircraft all over our skies. Furthermore, the ultimate strategy of elected officials, FAA representatives, and this industry is to pit groups against each other, make them fight each other for non-solutions, crumbs, and discredit themselves in the process and then say, Well, sorry but we don't seem to be able to come up with a regional solution. And yet they rig it from the start by telling different groups to come up with solutions. Groups must stand together and not get played like this. The industry has the money and too many officials are bought. But we have numbers and when we use the power of those numbers we can't be stopped.” - Tired of Cronyism, a resident of another community Look to the future… 600-3000 Frankfurt, Germany residents protest against aircraft noise, new runways, and new flight paths by protesting inside the airport terminal every Monday evening for the past 150 Mondays: http://www.airportwatch.org.uk/2015/09/residents-around-frankfurt-hold-their-150th-huge-monday-evening-protest-against-aircraft-noise/ Five arrested after blockading tunnel at London’s Heathrow Airport protest: http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/news/west-london-news/heathrow-airport-protest-five-arrested-10504638 Hundreds of people have ‘dropped dead’ at Heathrow Airport in a series of mass demonstrations against climate change and airport expansion: http://www.airportwatch.org.uk/2016/10/reclaim-the-power-staygrounded-die-in-flashmob-at-heathrow-against-runway-and-critical-mass-cycle-ride/ Flash mob protests against third runway at Heathrow Airport: http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/news/west-london-news/flash-mob-protests-against-third-10480252