As aviation groups lament the slow implementation of NextGen, a nationwide effort has emerged to turn back the clock. Protests were held in eight major cities Saturday as part of "No-Fly Day," an apparently well-organized effort to get the FAA to revise the routing that the new satellite approaches and departures mandate. The revisions have introduced increased aircraft noise to neighborhoods that were quiet under the old approaches and that's had a predictable result. "[NextGen] has put concentrated flight paths, they call them super highways in the sky, for jets over residential areas and have jets flying lower and louder than ever before, causing ridiculous amounts of noise in our neighborhoods," Opal Wagner, organizer of the Phoenix event, told the local CBS affiliate.
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