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Northwestern Pkwy

Louisville, 40212

January 2002

It happened again at 3:57 a.m. I was awakened by very low flying airplanes. They continued to fly in every few minutes until around 6:00 a.m. The one that flew in at 4:15 sounded like it was going to land in my back yard. I believe most of these planes are UPS planes. Is their flying altitude regulated by the FAA? Is anything being done about this? Should I direct my questions/complaints to someone else since you never responded to my last message of 1/11/02. Maybe the Mayor? Please respond.

Anonymous

Louisville, 40212

January 2001

Again this morning at 5:18 a.m. and 5:40 a.m. low flying planes sound like they are on my roof. VERY LOUD and CLOSE! The altitude has to be too low. Something is wrong. It seems to always be on Thursday morning.

Preston Hwy

Louisville, 40217

January 2002

This is a sad day for our community, when we have to hire Attorneys to
protect our property and peace of mind; from the very political leaders we put in office to protect our community. they should all be thrown in jail. they are the ones that are breaking the law. The war lords have landed, they are in city hall, the last time I checked the constitution, it did not say we the politicians, it said we the people. fed up with noise and pollution from the airport, see you in court

Spicewood Drive

Clarksville, 47129

January 2002

It is Wednesday evening about 11:30 PM and the planes have started again.
This is the third night in the month of January. It looks like sleep will be impossible again tonight. This is more than just an aggravation it is becoming a really really really bad situation. Once or twice a month which you said in one of our conversations would be typically normal, has been 8 nights in October, 9 nights in November, 9 nights in December and so far 3 nights in January. So about 30% of the time you are running flights over Clarksville and Southern Indiana. Rather than bringing them in from the south. I know you have told me it is weather conditions and things would get back to normal but it has been 4 months and things seem to be worsening instead of getting better. We can't help but think there is something other than the weather involved in this, that there is a concerted effort for some reason to run flights over Southern Indiana instead of bringing them in from the south. Which is less populated and would affect far less people. Just thought I would let you know another night of staying awake.

Aldewood Drive

Clarksville, 47129

January 2002

I do not know weather it is the UPS planes or the other ones going over every night. They start about 11:30 PM and they circle and circle and circle around our house you just can not go to bed until about 2:00 AM. We are just getting kind of tired of these airplanes going over Clarksville. If there is anything you can do I sure wood appreciate it.

S. Sixth Street

Louisville, 40203

January 2002

My friends the jet pilots were flying over my house early this morning starting at around midnight. I noticed it for 47 minutes to an hour every two or three minutes. It was the early morning of Thursday January 10th. And the same thing happened either early Monday morning or early Tuesday morning. I am in a fog when it happens and I am too angry to pick up the phone. And I do not remember which day it was.

Hamby Road

Georgetown, 47112

January 2002

I enjoy seeing the planes up here. The people who say they can count the rivets have a lot better eyesight than I do. The planes are a whole lot quieter now than they used to be. You can put me down for a yes vote on the planes flying over.

Mellwood Drive

New Albany, 47150

January 2002

A FedEx plane flew over at 9:23 AM and it was much nosier than others. If this is what it will be like when the flights are moved to Floyd County then we do not like it. Why was this plane so much louder than the rest?

Spicewood Drive

Clarksville, 47129

January 2002

It is Friday night at 11:20 PM and the UPS planes are buzzing the top of our houses again. I don't understand, just got through watching the weather and they said winds were calm out of the west. I know you said sometimes upper winds are higher than what they are on the ground, but it just seems awfully strange. We had 9 days in December when the flights were directed over Southern Indiana and here we are January 4th starting out again. We had 8 days in October, 9 in November. I don't know if you can explain this with some kind of weather pattern. I am almost to the point I do not want to fight it anymore just move and get out of the area or something. Just wanted to let you know.

Deschler Drive

Louisville

January 2002

Are they sending the airplanes out a different way? Most nights during the week 9:57, 10:57, 11:15, 11:21, and 11:25 PM, they are very loud. Friday night at 11:57 PM I believe my house shook. I was wondering if you could get back to me and let me know.

E. Riverside Drive

Jeffersonville, 47130

January 2002

The UPS planes departing over Jeffersonville last night woke me up. If you or I made this type of noise we would be arrested for disturbing the peace. Can you look and see if any planes were unusually low last night?

Spicewood Drive

Clarksville, 47129

January 2002

It is about 25 until 12 and I have been awaken by the UPS planes buzzing my house again tonight. In case you are keeping track that is 4 nights already in January. It looks like we are right on schedule to do the usual 8 or 9 maybe 10 nights that we have had for the last four months. It is just sad that a good nights sleep for us over here has to be considered a luxury instead of something everyone else takes for granted. Here come another plane now. I hope this does not happen to you, but in case you are keeping track this is another night we are staying awake. Thanks.

E. Riverside Drive

Jeffersonville, 47130

January 2002

I just wanted to log another complaint. The planes were bad again last night.

Hillside Lane

Jeffersonville, 47130

January 2002

Last night I was awaken at 11:55 PM or 12:05 AM by a loud airplane. After that I could not go back to sleep for an hour and a half. Is this going to be an every night thing or is this just a one time occurrence? This is the first time I have heard airplane noise at night.

Spicewood Drive

Clarksville, 47129

January 2002

We are being buzzed again tonight by the UPS planes. It started about 10 or 15 minuets ago and I guess it is going to go on the rest of the night. This is the 5th night in January, 8 in October, 9 in November, 9 in December, and you are on target again in January. This is a fundamental change from what it has been in the past. We consider a good nights sleep a luxury here in Southern Indiana what most people take for granted. This is a gross violation of our right to have a good nights sleep. I only wish that everyone who complained about the noise in this area called your office. You would be inundated with calls. But most people feel like the airport is going to do what they want to do, and one person is just a small voice, has no say, and they are going to run the planes where they want to. At first I thought there might be some slim chance that was not the case but, I am beginning to think the Airport Authority is going to put the planes where they want to put them. It seems like the Hoosiers, at least the ones affected by the over-flights don't matter that much. I know there is not a lot you can do but I am reporting again that sleep is disturbed and we are being kept awake by the UPS planes

Spicewood Drive

Clarksville, 47123

January 2002

I spent some time at home today was home most of the day. It was none
stop today as it was yesterday, last night and the UPS planes have started again tonight. Every three minutes it is like a sonic boom over out neighborhood it is impossible to sleep, impossible to sleep. A gross violation of just being able to live a normal life. You are probably aware I have tried to keep you updated. This is six days so far in January, on the heels of 8 in October, 9 in November, 9 in December. You had once told me that if the wind was out of the north that they would reverse the runways and bring the flight in from the north. Just checked all three of the weather channels and they all said the wind is out of the south. So it appears that it is kind of whatever we want to do thing. Lets fly them over Jeffersonville and Clarksville. A lot of the people that I talk to are feeling that the only alternative is to move out of the area. Some can afford that and other can not. I am beginning to think the same thing if that’s not the answer because it does not appear that there is going to beany let up. If anything it is getting worse. I am complaining because we have another night of no sleep over here. And again, how the people get a good nights sleep, I guess this is of no concern to them.

Preston Hwy

Louisville, 40217

January 2002

My granddaughter was in a car wreck (minor) and I did not hear her emergency phone call because I had to have my earplugs in. I just want you put this complaint down with the other ones.

Spicewood Drive

Clarksville, 47123

January 2002

The planes have been buzzing us all evening long right over our heads. I guess it will continue on through the night with UPS doing the same thing. We will be deprived of sleep over here in Clarksville. This evening when I got in I did canvass some of the neighborhood and they are confirming what I have thought all along that this noise thing has been about a five month problem with the late night UPS flights, something definitely has happened to the flights of the planes that have been moved over to our area towards the Parkwood and Blackstone heights subdivisions. It affects thousands of people. I will bet that I can show you that the path has been moved over our area since October, and people are telling me that in mass now. There are lots of people that are up in arms. The anger level is rising. As a matter of fact I have had some block managers that said they could get petitions and could get hundreds of signatures I could get you 500 names of people who say that in the last 5 months the noise has been prevalent and is unbearable at night. I have been out talking to the people and they are asking me if I can bring this message to you. Maybe we could have a meeting over here in Clarksville I could let you face some of these people and I could let you know about the noise and that it is unbearable and it is right directly overhead, low flying planes, all evening long and when UPS starts at 11:20 PM it will last until 3:30 AM and there are people loosing sleep and I need to go, so give me a call.

Spicewood Drive

Clarksville, 47129

January 2002

It is the 29th and we are having flights over head again and this looks like the 9th night in January that we are going to flights overhead. Thanks for meeting with me today. One of the things you said though that I brought to the people over here was met with a great deal of skepticism and even some hostility was when you said it might be a matter of perception since October. The people are saying and I agree with them that having a noise maker all the way up as loud as it will go and some people have there TV's up as loud as it will go and still have the planes drown that out. That is not something we would have not noticed prior to October, something maybe we just became aware of since September 11th or since the announcement was made about the noise study. As loud as these planes are that is completely off base and I agree with them. That is just not the case. These planes were not flying overhead prior to October 2001. As loud as they are and as much noise as they are making and saying we just did not notice them before that is just wrong. Come over hear and listen to them and you will see that statement has no validity at all. Something has happened since October, we are being subjected to noise that we were not prior to October. It is loud and constant and it is nine or ten days out of the month. I can sense the frustration level building. The fact that this might be perception was not received well at all.

Evanna Court

Floyd Knobs

January 2002

We had 2 flights between 1230 and 01:00 AM that were louder than normal. Most of the time you can just barely hear them, but these 2 were loud. Also heard one this morning at 09:20 AM.

Spicewood Drive

Clarksville, 47129

January 2002

This is Wednesday night the 30th and we are going to have a night of interrupted sleep, the planes are flying directly overhead again. This is nine days in January, you have tied your November and December record and we have one more day left in the month so it looks like we are going to probably break the record. This is three straight night Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday that the planes have been diverted from the south over Southern Indiana flying directly overhead. You told me to report into you and I am telling you again that this is 3 straight nights and nine days in January. You are running about 67% and you said your goal was 80 so someone in the tower is not trying very hard to meet that goal.

Spicewood Drive

Clarksville, 47129

January 2002

They have been buzzing the tops of the houses all evening long and it is almost 11PM. It looks like it is going to another night of very little sleep over here. That will make 10 days out of the month of January which I am sure you are aware of. What is more disconcerting is that 6 of them out of the last 10 days and 4 nights in a row now. Real tough to be anything buy cranky and irritable when you do not get any sleep for 4 night in a row. Something has to be done, it is not very equitable that these 2 or 3 neighborhoods over hear right under the paths of these planes (and the planes are flying very very low) are continually awake at night.

Northwestern Pkwy

Louisville, 40212

January 2002

I live on Northwestern Pkwy. between Market street and Bank Street. This morning, as usually happens at least twice a week, low flying airplanes woke me up at 3:00 a.m. They consistently flew in every 3-5 minutes until 6:00-6:30 a.m. They fly so low, they seem to be right on the roof of my house. They are VERY loud. Why are they flying so low, 14 miles away from the airport? Shouldn't their elevation be high enough not to cause such a disturbance in my neighborhood?

Audubon Parkway

Louisville

January 2002

The airport was in 'north flow' throughout the evening yesterday, sending departing aircraft over the most densely populated areas in the area of the field. I wasn't able to collect event data throughout the period, but several checks of on-field conditions gave remarkably consistent wind conditions: 90 to 110 degrees, 5 to 8 knots. These conditions would not only fall well within parameters for normal south flow, but would actually produce a modest tailwind for northbound traffic, making it less safe. Unless other factors are at work here, occasions like this just keep adding to the evidence pool for improved decision aids in the tower, and accessible to the impacted public.