Photo: Boarding1Now / iStock Editorial / Getty Images
Residents living in neighborhoods near Palm Beach International Airport continue to complain about airplane noise that they never had to deal with before late last year.
That's when the FAA changed the flight path to protect President Trump and Mar-a-Lago, with new year-round restrictions for pilots.
At a Citizens' Committee on Airport Noise meeting last night, officials with the airport said they are still working to install five new noise monitors by the middle of this month.
Folks like Robert Austin say that's not soon enough.
"I've been asking for years for a noise monitor. I've done my own noise monitoring, even though it's not to the extreme level, it's definitely to the nuisance level. We're ten miles out. We're probably in the most quiet area in Palm Beach and we still get blasted."
The new monitors are aimed at collecting data to better measure aircraft noise over nearby homes.
The data will then be provided to the FAA in the hopes of the agency changing the flight paths.
There will be another meeting on April 23rd.