STOP
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NOISE
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Who We Are STOP the NOISE is a non-profit corporation headquartered in Harvard, Massachusetts. We work to restore quiet to the skies above our communities by causing FAA to enforce existing regulations regarding aerobatic flight and by working to bring about changes in the FAA regulations and in the FAA culture. We deal with the unnecessary noise that is a direct consequence of unnecessary recreational flying. We believe that such activities force you to subsidize the hobby of some anonymous pilot by giving up your property, your privacy, your peace and your quiet so that a wealthy few may zoom about in their noisy little airplanes. It is not our intent to shut down General Aviation. It is our intent to make General Aviation responsible to the public interest. We see the public interest as something other than the profitability of aviation and the enjoyment of a few barnstormers. We see the public interest as something other than a recreation industry that knowingly ruins the homes and lives of non-participants. We see the public interest as the re-empowerment of American property owners to be able to enjoy the peace, comfort and privacy of their hard-earned homes without the endless intrusions of aerial dirt-bikers. We have no issues with high altitude transports. We certainly support activities such as Life Flight Air Ambulances, Angel Flight, Search and Rescue and other emergency services. We may tolerate general aviation craft engaged in legitimate point-to-point navigation. What we won't tolerate are aerobatics, Sunday flyers, leaf peepers, and flight schools using our airspace as recreational sites or as industrial training areas for their personal profit and amusement at the expense of the private property owners and residents below. This kind of noise doesn't "just happen". It is, without question, man-made. Therefore, someone is responsible. That responsible someone can be made to cease and desist. If you believe that your property is yours and not a public resource, contact us. In the beginning we chose not to get involved with the many battles about airports, runway expansion or takeoff and landing
noise. In the past year we have begun working with some of the citizens'
groups working to save their communities for expansion of small local airports.
The reasons are many. Check out our Airports
page to learn why. mail@STOPtheNOISE.org
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