Dear HCN,


Your Oct. 2 article about the jet noise in a Colorado wilderness made me realize that I might be able to help after fighting the jet noise from San Francisco Airport for 25 years.


First, start by learning everything about the way the Federal Aviation Administration handles takeoffs and landings in every type of weather and every type of plane at Denver International Airport. If the airport has a sound abatement or noise committee, make sure that you have representatives of your groups attend every meeting: the bigger the coalition of angry people, the better.


Second, learn how much control the airport has, how much FAA has, and how much the individual pilot has about where he flies and how he flies. Since we live in the “mountains’ where the planes take off, we sympathize with you.

Sylvia M. Gregory


San Bruno, California

Sylvia Gregory coordinates the A.I.R. Force, which stands for Airport Impact Reduction Force. She can be reached at 141 Madison Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, or by e-mail at sdmg@netcom.com.

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She knows about jets

by Sylvia M. Gregory, High Country News
December 11, 1995

<h1>She knows about jets</h1> <p class="byline">by Sylvia M. Gregory, High Country News <br />December 11, 1995</p> <p>Dear HCN,</p> <p>Your Oct. 2 article about<br /> the jet noise in a Colorado wilderness made me realize that I might<br /> be able to help after fighting the jet noise from San Francisco<br /> Airport for 25 years.</p> <p>First, start by learning<br /> everything about the way the Federal Aviation Administration<br /> handles takeoffs and landings in every type of weather and every<br /> type of plane at Denver International Airport. If the airport has a<br /> sound abatement or noise committee, make sure that you have<br /> representatives of your groups attend every meeting: the bigger the<br /> coalition of angry people, the better.</p> <p>Second,<br /> learn how much control the airport has, how much FAA has, and how<br /> much the individual pilot has about where he flies and how he<br /> flies. Since we live in the “mountains’ where the planes take off,<br /> we sympathize with you.</p> <p>Sylvia<br /> M. Gregory</p> <p>San Bruno,<br /> California</p> <p>Sylvia Gregory<br /> coordinates the A.I.R. Force, which stands for Airport Impact<br /> Reduction Force. She can be reached at 141 Madison Ave., San Bruno,<br /> CA 94066, or by e-mail at<br /> sdmg@netcom.com.</p> </p> <div class="wp-block-group hcn-print-edition-box"> <p>This article appeared in the <a href="/?p=187402">print edition of the magazine</a> with the headline <span class="hcn-magtitle">She knows about jets</span>.</p> </p></div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/issue-49/she-knows-about-jets/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info Country News&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.hcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-HCN_Logo-Monogram_White_Sq-2.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;quality=100&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=119272&amp;amp;ga4=G-0NS3WVPPTN&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/issue-49/she-knows-about-jets/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/hcn.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

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