MCQSC Updates Archives
December 2022 MCQSC Update: Congressional Letter to FAA — Noise-Impacted Communities Must Be Heard
Members of the Congressional Quiet Skies Caucus, including Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD-8), sent a letter Dec. 1 to the Federal Aviation Administration asking the FAA to take actions to ensure that communities impacted by aviation are treated as legitimate stakeholders in the agency’s decision-making processes.
November 2022 MCQSC Update: Status of Proposed DCA Approach Procedure
At the Oct. 2022 meeting of the DCA Community Noise Working Group, the FAA presented modifications to the proposal new approach procedure signaling a possible way forward.
October 2022 MCQSC Update: Maryland Study Says Concentrated Flight Paths Have Negative Health Affects
Study says concentrated flight paths at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI) airport have negative health effects that will, on average, cost Marylanders in excess of $40 million per year over the next 30 years.
August 2022 MCSQC Update: New Law Tells NASA to Research Technologies For Cleaner, Quieter Planes and Other News
Cleaner, Quieter Airplane Act signed into law and a FFA-funded sleep study looking at nighttime aircraft noise and sleep disturbance is underway. The findings are anticipated Sept. 2024.
July 2022 MCQSC Update: Noise Is Up at DCA; FAA wins lawsuit against residents of Scottsdale, AZ and Other News
Number of flights at DCA almost back to pre-pandemic levels.
July 2022 MCQSC Update: Southern California Quiet Skies Group Requests Action from Transportation Secretary Buttigieg
Studio City for Quiet Skies, a community group fighting the harm caused by the NextGen changes at Burbank Airport, sent an email July 6 calling on Secretary Buttgieg to fix the severe damage caused by NextGen.
July 2022: Special MCQSC Update: New Helicopter Noise Complaint System for the DC Region
A trial helicopter noise reporting system for the DC area is now operationala.
June 2022 MCQSC Update: MCQSC Participates in National Conference on Airplane Noise and Health; A Noise Complaint System for Helicopters
A national online conference, Aircraft Noise, Pollution and Health: Connecting the Dots, drew more than 400 participants from the United States and other countries.
May 2021 Special MCQSC Update: Coalition Needs Grant Writing Help
Please consider volunteering to help MCQSC apply for an EPA Environmental Justice Small Grant.
February 2021 MCQSC Update: FAA to Hold Webinar on Aircraft Noise Annoyance Study
The Federal Aviation Administration is to hold a wedinar on a recently released study showing people are much more highly annoyed by aircraft noise than the FAA’s modeling and assumptions for the last 40+ years have assumed.
March 2020 MCQSC Special Update: Court Rules State of Maryland Cannot Take Legal Action Against the FAA
In June 2018 Maryland filed a petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals challenging the FAA’s 2015 changes to DCA approach procedures.
Yesterday, March 10, 2020, the court dismissed Maryland's petition as untimely because Maryland filed its petition after the 60-day filing deadline set forth in the statute of limitations imposed by Congress.