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Hotel Booking It will be Morristown Airport's call on whether to advance a plan for a new takeoff pattern to minimize noise complaints in Madison, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said.

Travel Agency Prompted by neighbors' complaints, the municipal airport's private operator commissioned a noise analysis last year to see if planes taking off from the runway that abuts Columbia Turnpike would bother fewer people if they made their turns miles later than they do now.

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Cheap Hotel FAA spokesman Jim Peters said the study marks the first stage of what could be a two-step process. If D.M. Airport Developers Inc., which runs the airport, decides to proceed with a change, it could be implemented as soon as the FAA deemed the procedure safe.

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Flight Booking "That's their call," Peters said. "It's up to them to make the proposal to us and we would review it to see whether we can accommodate them."

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Travel Agent The $30,000 study, begun last August, is mapping current and alternative flight paths to determine the number of homes affected by each. The draft is to be released this week and a public meeting to discuss it will be held March 26 at the Westin Hotel in Morris Township.

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Hotel Chicago William Barkhauer, airport director, cautioned residents not to get their hopes up, because the airport will not want to make a change if it only shifts noise to another neighborhood.

Online Booking "The preliminary study is still being finalized and it is not a foregone conclusion that the alternative departure route will be found to be feasible," Barkhauer said.

Travel Health Insurance If it is, a new departure route could see planes making their turns about three miles south of Runway 23, instead a mile or so as they do now, Barkhauer said. But he cautioned such details needed to be worked out by a follow-up study, if deemed necessary.

Hotel Reservation "We've been honest with people that our operations are very limited because we're smack in the middle of the busiest air space in the world," he said. "I don't think we've always gotten the point across that Morristown and its air traffic don't exist in a vacuum."

London Hotel Booking Proponents said they think a shift could work.

Discount Travel "We, of course, are hopeful they'll put the planes back where they were," said Bill List, a long- time Madison resident.

Orlando Hotel List is also president of the Quieter Environment Through Sound Thinking group that began advocating for change five years ago. "Increased noise affects everyone's quality of life," he said.

Booking Agency He said the proposed change would only return the flight pattern to the way it was a few years ago. When traffic to Newark Liberty and Teterboro airports increased, air traffic controllers began making planes turn sooner.

International Travel Medical According to an airport tally, most of the noise complaints come from Florham Park and Madison. Excluding three "frequent callers," total complaints declined from a high of 496 in 1998 -- when there were 261,536 flights -- to 184 last year.

New York Hotel In that time, Morristown Airport has grown into the state's second-busiest airport after Newark Liberty. Newark Liberty had 411,239 flights last year, while Morristown had 236,339. The FAA count put Teterboro at third, with 232,405 flights.

Online Travel Booking By Al Frank
Star-Ledger - 3/16/2003

Topic: Airplanes & Airports

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