Be a part of creating positive change in your community
Be a part of creating positive change in your community
We are a group of passionate Palm Coast residents committed to living in a noise and pollution free city. Our mission is to empower each other with DATA (decibel meters, logging flight activity on adsbexchange.com, AND LEAD FUEL RESEARCH) and to provide resources to ensure a better and healthier future in Palm Coast for generations to come.
Present the data and cite the violations of the Flagler Airport and Flight Schools to the FAA, Palm Coast City Counsel, and Flagler County Commisioners to ensure the rules they have already set in place, are adheared to. Our focus is education and cooperation for our health and environmental sustainability.
Thanks to you, our dedicated residents and supportive community, we will able to make a significant impact in the lives of many in Palm Coast, especially the ones living near the airport. From signing petitions and monitoring and gathering data to presenting to them, we show them we all care and are proud to live here.
There has been a dramatic increase in the use of the Flagler Executive Airport by flight schools over the past several years. Most of the planes from these schools originate from other airports, most notably the Daytona Beach Airport. On an average day there are more than 500 combined flights coming in and out of our airport, with approximately 450 being from flight schools. And of these, most are touch and goes. Many of the planes are older Cessnas that create frequent excessive noise over neighborhoods on a daily basis. Bad weather is the only thing that interupts this pattern. Otherwise, there are no breaks ... even on Sundays and holidays. The airport has established voluntary noise abatement procedures, but these are largely ignored by the flight school planes. Instead of going out in forested areas to turn, the planes have been turning over neighborhoods, often paralleling neighborhood roads. Planes often cross neighborhoods at less than 500 feet (some at only 150'), but especially on landings. which is a safety issue. The airport does not charge flight schools for use of the airport and there is little economic benefit to the County or City of Palm Coast as few stop for fuel or other services. In addition to the noise, these planes use LEADED FUEL and emit lead aerosols which are DANGEROUS! The US EPA has been particularly concerned about plane-related lead exposures to children living near airports. The FAA has published documents on noise issues but to date little or nothing has been done to correct the problems. In fact they have always rejected mandatory noise abatement procedures that counties and airports have asked for. To change our current situation, we ask you to help us by signing the petition that could eliminate these flight schools.
Flagler County Executive Airport, "FCEA is a NOISE SENSITIVE airport"
City of Palm Coast (Sec.35-51), "Unlawful for any person to willfully make 'LOUD and RAUCOUS' noise....to any occupied residential unit. Enforced by Flagler County Sheriff.
Flagler County Sound Limit (Sec.35-53), Residential Zones 7am - 10pm is 60 decibels, 10pm-7am is 55 decibels. 1st violation, warning. 2nd, $250. 3rd, $500 and/or 60 days imprisonment.
Click the link and you will be sent to an email to request a signature page. We will email and you can sign, scan and return by email, mail, or one of us will be happy to pick it up!
THERE'S POWER IN NUMBERS!
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!
The website/interactive map is not very user friendly.
To submit a complaint, click on the blue highlighted
"here" on the bottom line. That takes you to a form
that can be submitted electronically. The only place
to add additional information is where the form asks for
"Location of occurance." To date, responses to submissions
have been from Roy Seiger. Please share your responses
from them with us.
Nearly all of the flight school aircraft use leaded gasoline and emissions of lead from the planes can harm children and adults. Despite the great accomplishments by the government and industry to reduce explosures to lead, similar results have not occuried at many regional airports.
Chronic and excessive exposure to aviation noise can adversely affect sleep and academic performance of children, cause disruption of every day social activities, and contribute to development of heart disease, among others. In total, it can dramatically reduce the quality of life for which Palm Coast is noted.
Click on this email link and you can easily send a noise/LEAD FUEL complaint (and it's on record) to the FAA, the County Airport, and the Flagler County Board of Commissioners. Just say date, time, and street. Thank you!
We need people to collect decibel data in the R, E, North and South Z, K, L, North and South U Sections of Palm Coast. We already have some areas covered, but would love more! Some have ordered this meter on Amazon. Just put outside away from AC, record, and download the data!
Find the Airplanes Flying over our HOMES, SCHOOLS,
HOSPITALS, and COMMUNITY!
WEBSITES:
ADSBExchange.com
FlightAware.com
FlightRadar24.com
I work from home and bought a home with an office so I would have a quiet space to work. The airplanes are louder than my children! It's very difficult to concentrate on projects.
These planes are polluting our neighborhoods with leaded gasoline! You might not think it's much, but 200 or more times a day. It adds up! And it's usually on days with little wind.
The constant plane noise is so loud, I can't hear the TV. It drives us nuts! Sometimes I have to wear headphones. It's gotten pretty bad lately. Didn't used to be this bad.
My children have a hard time getting to sleep for a nap and often wake back up to the sound of the airplanes over our house. It's the same at bedtime! It's quite loud! Not just them, us too!
I've been outside talking with friends or neighbors ...or even on the telephone ...and you can't hear what someone is saying that is standing 3 feet away from you!
We support you and yes, the planes are loud and constant, but we are afraid of RETALIATION at our government job!
All noise complaints must be reported within 1 week of occurance.
**Name, phone, and email are optional, but required for return response.
Complaints must contain a residential address, time and date to be valid.
For the purpose of this website, complaints must pertain to aircraft that OPERATE (This includes TOUCH and GOs) out of KFIN (Flagler Executive Airport)
Complaints containing profanity or threats will not be valid.
**Name, phone, email (optional)
Address: Street, City, State, Zip
Would you like to be contacted? List Source
Disturbance Date
Disturbance Time
Type of Aircraft, Tail#, or Call Sign
(Best to have decibel meter and
screen shot of radar)
Any Additional Information
(386) 313-4220
Airport Manager, Roy Sieger
Gina Friedman
PalmCoast.gov
FlaglerCounty.gov
Phoenix East - DAB
(386) 210-0056
Embry Riddle - DAB
(800) 862-2416
This website was created because of the constant noise by the flight schools over our homes, not normal airport noise. The best effort has been made to research the FAA's Noise Abatement Procedures, as well as City and County Codes. Also, the best effort to remedy the violations.
If a correction is needed, please email peaceforpalm@gmail.com
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