Comments on: Hartsfield Wants to Lower Flight Ceiling Around DeKalb-Peachtree

By: Felicia

Felicia — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:29:39 +0000

I live in Dunwoody North and am sick and tired of hearing airplanes every 30 minutes. We moved into our house 3 years ago and up until about 6 months ago we NEVER used to hear planes now that’s all we hear.
We hear planes from 6am to 2am every single day. It gets real old!

By: Lalia Perry

Lalia Perry — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:42:24 +0000

I am frantic with the noise of jets landing. They fly over every 1 1/2 to 2 minutes. This is every
night and I have no peace and quiet. It disrupts my sleep and I am very cranky. I would move
but that is not an option. I read the notice from the family in Dunwoody North stating how they
were planning to move before the jet noise ceased. Well, it just relocated to my area. I can’t
remember how Dunwoody North got rid of the noise but we need to do the same. Needless to
say, I will be at the meeting.

By: David

David — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:34:00 +0000

Like I said. Straight out to 10,000 then turn em which ever way you want. No turns period till 10,000 feet. It would stop the noise problems except in that corridor. What’s so difficult about that?

By: Decatur Metro

Decatur Metro — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:55:14 +0000

Geez Swanny, you sure are passionate about this issue.

I’m not going to argue with the technicalities of your points, since I know jack-squat about this issue, but I will take issue with your assumption that Ridge and David are “spreading false information”. Phrasing it that way implies they are making false statements intentionally, something neither of us can prove or disprove, but it sure doesn’t sound like that to me. You seem to know a lot about this issue, so I don’t know why you keep falling back on making accusations.

And it really shouldn’t be all that amazing that people get worked up about issues they know little about. It happens all the time. Things intrude in our lives everyday that we haven’t spent decades researching, and we’re forced to learn about quickly and make assumptions and generalizations along the way.

If anyone here is guilty of spreading misinformation here it’s me. And we all thrive on correction. That’s how this site works. I don’t have the final say like a newspaper reporter, which is great because errors are quickly exposed and corrected. And as a result, everyone wins.

By: Swanny

Swanny — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 07:13:32 +0000

Hate to say it, but you are spreading false information like Ridge.

Don’t disagree with you David that they have been making those turns prior to 2005. ATL5 is a vector departure which means they can’t make turns until the ATC gives the turn direction.. If they are in East Ops, and you have a west bound aircraft, then ATC would have to turn them north and west at some point. The RNAV procedures are a series of absolute points that an aircraft must fly through without ATC instruction, thus you always see aircraft over our heads in the same spots at about the same altitude now.

You were well above 3k. I know that for fact. If you “were no more” than 3k then you would be violating the bottom of Class B airspace which would result in your pilot getting his licensed revoked and perhaps crashing into me while taking friends to see Decatur from above. If you don’t believe me just go check the sectional charts.

If you and Ridge want to complain about the change, that is fine. KPDK is actually opposed to it. Heck, I may actually be apposed to it. Your issue is with the FAA and how they want to control the airspace. It is NOT with the evil airlines. It amazes me how much people get worked up about an issue they obviously know nothing about.