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Considering that FAA lowered a bunch of flight paths over the last ~5 years, kinda feels like a bait and switch. My parents' place was always pretty quiet since it's 20+ miles from the nearest major airport, but after FAA Nextgen was implemented it got fairly noisy from all the airliners passing over.

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I'm curious, where did this happen?

KONT, here's a video of the NIMBY (NOMBY?) complaints: https://youtu.be/MenUDN35uCM

ok, nothing was lowered, but nextgen and the reliance on satellite based navigation is allowing the planes to take more direct routes. this necessarily takes them over areas where they didn't fly before.

i'm sympathetic to the homeowners, but the routes are more efficient and planes burn less fuel. and if the difference is really only a few miles as the guy said in the video, we're talking about ~15 seconds of inconvenience per plane (planes look like they're flying over the lakes ~300 kts), and from checking adsexchange/flightradar, we're not talking about a huge number of planes.

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