I did more reading on my inquiry topic this week. My first and key text was the sky. Plane after plane fly over the neighborhood, always in the same direction although at different distances. I read more about the issue at this link: http://airtrafficparkslope.org/. From what it says at that website, it must be planes that are heading for Laguardia. I learned from the site that there used to be a rule that limited plane density - the High Density Rule (HDR). The site says since it expired in 2007, the problem has gotten worse:
they relaxed previous restrictions and allowed the airline industry to increase the number of operations into all 3 airports. As a result of this decision, operations went thru the roof with airlines adding substantial number of flights into an already overburdened system. This is precisely the time period when we started to notice the major shift in air traffic over Kings county."
I want to check these facts as I know very well you can't believe everything you find at a website. They say the FAA says people in Brooklyn Kings County are wrong, that nothing has changed and that we're just being over-sensitive. I know this might be true but if it did change in 2007, that would explain why I lived here for so many years and never really noticed before the constant flights.
Some questions this raises for me are:
1) what is the air pollution effect of so many airplanes. I checked one website and it said that the issue of air pollution is more for overall global warming because of the height that planes fly - I need to do more research on this;
2) has there really been a change and who else has been affected by it. There's a really interesting website: http://www4.passur.com/lga.html It shows you plane flights in and out of Laguardia in real time (it changes as you watch). In five minutes, I saw 3 flights cross over the general area of my neighborhood.
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