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Members of Stop The Noise initially attempted to halt flights over and near their communities by writing complaints to FAA alleging FAR violations, in hopes that FAA would issue violations to various pilots. The complaints focused largely on flight training and aerobatic operations, claiming various airspace violations such as low flight and aerobatics within an airway. Most of these complaints were not against any of the pilots or the flight school named in the lawsuit. The FAA investigated and rejected each of the over 30 complaints, and rejected each of them because their claims simply did not match data available and obtained from radar tapes, videotapes, interviews, and the like. Several representative samples of the complaint letters and FAA responses are available below. The complete list of complaints comprises over 100 pages - too much for a web site. As with most of the complaints, all of these were written by Mr. David McCoy, who is one of the plaintiffs in the current lawsuit. For some complaints, we do not currently have access to the original complaint. We have posted the FAA replies because their content is particularly relevant and detailed. We will post the original letters once we obtain copies.
Complaints involving normal upright flight, not involving aerobatics:
Complaints involving aerobatic flight:
After the numerous attempts at violating various pilots all failed, these individuals then shifted their tactics to a new strategy - lawsuits - singling out a few pilots to try to set an example, and intimidating many others.
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