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Monthly Noise Complaints Toronto City Centre Airport Monthly Noise Comments NOTE: The Toronto City Centre Airport (TCCA) authorities do not have control of airborne aircraft in the TCCA Control Zone or on maneuvering surfaces of TCCA proper. Control of aircraft in the air is a Transport Canada Jurisdiction and is managed by the NAV CANADA Air Traffic Control Unit at TCCA and Lester B. Pearson International Airport. SUMMARY: Total Noise Related Comments 196 Number of Individuals 65 Noise Related 163 Presence Related 17 Noise and Presence 14 Scheduled Air Service 102 General Aviation 56 Helicopters 15 Armed Forces 2 Medevac Jet 1 Unidentified * 4 Non-Aircraft Related 6 Non-Specific Event 10 Algonquin Island 54 Bathurst/Queen’s Quay 99 Eastern Beaches 1 Harbour Square Area 11 Other Areas of City 3 Wards Island 28 Total Aircraft Movements for the Month 9,953 * “Unidentified” represents aircraft which were not identified by the complainant or could not be established from the Aircraft Flight Tracking and Noise System (AFTNS). 03/06/2008 6:20:00 AM T-01 Bathurst/Queen's Quay Area Type of Comment: Noise Presence Noise + Presence Was woken up by the loud noise of revving and idling airplane engines at 6:20 a.m. Please control your tenants. Aircraft Category Non - Specific Response: AFTNS tracked no aircraft activity at this time. Action: Pilot Contacted Airline Contacted Flight School Contacted Control Tower Contacted JUNE 2008 TCCA Monthly Noise Comments Page 1 of 83 03/06/2008 4:00:00 PM M-07 Bathurst/Queen's Quay Area Type of Comment: Noise Presence Noise + Presence This airport noise complaint form is difficult to use. If I send a complaint every time there s excessive airport noise, I ll be sending you five or ten complaints a day. Is that what you want us to do - send ten complaints a day? Where do we start, perhaps with the unnecessarily loud ferry foghorn early in the morning and late at night, especially on Sundays when there s no fog. The aircraft two minute warm-ups on the ground are seriously disruptive in our homes, and the stench of aircraft fuel in the Music Garden is sickening. I ve vomited twice already when gagging on aircraft fuel fumes in the Music Garden. And then there s the noise of helicopters that wake us up after midnight. This is one noisy fucking airport and I really resent the fact that you re in my neighborhood, especially when our sleep is interrupted all night long by aircraft noises. So, what was the time of the incident? Which incident, there are so many. I m hearing aircraft noise right now at 4 in the afternoon, and it s the same every hour. But I don t think the Port Authority cares about our personal problems, so what s the use of filling out complaint forms. Aircraft Category Non - Aircraft Related Response: Comments noted. With regards to sounding of ferry horn, this is a marine regulation. Action: Pilot Contacted Airline Contacted Flight School Contacted Control Tower Contacted JUNE 2008 TCCA Monthly Noise Comments Page 2 of 83 04/06/2008 7:01:00 AM H-02 Algonquin Island Type of Comment: Noise Presence Noise + Presence Loud plane. Re: “With regards to notifying pilots to avoid low overflights of the community,......invoice for landing is issued to a visting pilot, a copy of the Good Neighbour Policy is attached to the invoice.” Your cynical and dismissive responses to the community’s concerns about noise, the TPA’s forcing of airport expansion through despite the wishes of Torontonians and Toronto’s mayor, your landing planes outside of the hours stipulated in the legally binding Tripartite agreement, your use of Q400s which also violate the Tripartite agreement’s rules on noise, your pilots’ continued over-passing of the community, your pilots’ flying tightly around the community so that emissions spew into the air that the people breathe, your removal of the very few bike posts at Union Station so that your mostly empty buses may idle on the sidewalk, your abuse of the queuing lanes at the foot of Bathurst Street that run adjacent to a park, a daycare and a school certainly don’t give any impression that the TPA or Island Airport care about the community it resides in. Obviously giving your pilots slips of paper is not working. Aircraft Category Non - Specific Response: AFTNS tracked Porter taking off at 0657h. Within normal operating hours. Action: Pilot Contacted Airline Contacted Flight School Contacted Control Tower Contacted JUNE 2008 TCCA Monthly Noise Comments Page 3 of 83 05/06/2008 D-04 Bathurst/Queen's Quay Area Type of Comment: Noise Presence Noise + Presence I began dining with friends on my balcony on what what could have been an enjoyable experience - for the next hour and twenty minutes we ended up recording the times of the noise as my guests could not believe the roar of various planes on landing. This is what we recorded, times may not be exact: 18:19 - Q400 landing (it was an all encompassing noise) 18:23 - repeat 18:23 - 18:43 - 7 smalll engine planes take off 18:45 - a deafening helicopter 19:07 - Q400 take off (jet fuel fumes and noise) 19:23 - Q400 take off - as above 19:39 - another loud helicopter We went inside after becasue it was too much noise and pollution - I m not sure I can entertain on the balcony or even want to sit out on it as this night was my first attempt at using my balcony since I moved there last Fall. this is not acceptable in terms of quality of life. Aircraft Category Scheduled Air Service DH8D de Havilland Q400 Response: AFTNS tracked the following aircraft activity at the times of complaint: GA takeoffs at 1818h, 1849h, 1857h. GA landings at 1832h, 1850h, 1859h. Porter takeoffs at 1831h and 1926h. Porter landings at 1827h and 1907h. Within normal airport operating hours. Action: Pilot Contacted Airline Contacted Flight School Contacted Control Tower Contacted JUNE 2008 TCCA Monthly Noise Comments Page 4 of 83 05/06/2008 9:20:00 PM B-06 Other Type of Comment: Noise Presence Noise + Presence Umbelievable the noise. I was at the Alexandra Yacht Club at the BBQ and could not hear people speaking for the non stop noise of a plane waiting to take off. By the time it did another damn plane was reving its engine waiting to take off. By 9:35 it was relatively quiet again. Honestly, how do the people on the Waterfront stand it..... It is awful. Aircraft Category Scheduled Air Service DH8D de Havilland Q400 Response: AFTNS tracked unidentified GA taking off at 2125h, Porter taking off at 2126h, Porter landing at 2127h, and GA taking off at 2130h. Within normal airport operating hours. Action: Pilot Contacted Airline Contacted Flight School Contacted Control Tower Contacted 05/06/2008 10:22:00 PM K-02 Algonquin Island Type of Comment: Noise Presence Noise + Presence An aircraft overflew the residential area of Algonquin Island at a low altitude. Aircraft Category General Aviation Unidentified Response: AFTNS tracked no unusual activity within 20 minutes of time of complaint however we suspect the AFTNS may have been out of service for several minutes at this time. Action: Pilot Contacted Airline Contacted Flight School Contacted Control Tower Contacted JUNE 2008 TCCA Monthly Noise Comments Page 5 of 83 05/06/2008 10:22:00 PM H-02 Algonquin Island Type of Comment: Noise Presence Noise + Presence A low flying lvery oud plane flew perilously low over our houses. Maybe you should try hefty fines. Slips of paper aren t working. Aircraft Category General Aviation Unidentified Response: AFTNS tracked no unusual activity within 20 minutes of time of complaint however we suspect the AFTNS may have been out of service for several minutes at this time. Action: Pilot Contacted Airline Contacted Flight School Contacted Control Tower Contacted 05/06/2008 11:09:00 PM K-02 Algonquin Island Type of Comment: Noise Presence Noise + Presence A loud aircraft landed at the airport after the curfew hour. Aircraft Category Scheduled Air Service DH8D de Havilland Q400 Response: AFTNS tracked Porter landing at 2308h. Action: Pilot Contacted Airline Contacted Flight School Contacted Control Tower Contacted 05/06/2008 11:10:00 PM M-08 Harbour Square Area Type of Comment: Noise Presence Noise + Presence Another plane landed after 11pm when the airport should be closed..Why aren t these planes rerouted to Pearson as they are supposed to be? Shame on you for not respecting the rules or the community. Aircraft Category Scheduled Air Service DH8D de Havilland Q400 Response: AFTNS tracked Porter land at 2308h. Action: Pilot Contacted Airline Contacted Flight School Contacted Control Tower Contacted JUNE 2008 TCCA Monthly Noise Comments Page 6 of 83 05/06/2008 11:10:00 PM B-01 Bathurst/Queen's Quay Area Type of Comment: Noise Presence Noise + Presence A Porter airplane landed making its usual noise, disturbing the neighbourhood. Aircraft Category Scheduled Air Service DH8D de Havilland Q400 Response: AFTNS tracked Porter landing at 2308h. Action: Pilot Contacted Airline Contacted Flight School Contacted Control Tower Contacted 05/06/2008 11:10:00 PM J-01 Bathurst/Queen's Quay Area Type of Comment: Noise Presence Noise + Presence Porter airline roaring engines on landing. Aircraft Category Scheduled Air Service DH8D de Havilland Q400 Response: AFTNS tracked Porter landing at 2308h. Action: Pilot Contacted Airline Contacted Flight School Contacted Control Tower Contacted 05/06/2008 11:10:00 PM R-01 Bathurst/Queen's Quay Area Type of Comment: Noise Presence Noise + Presence I saw and heard a Porter flight land at 23:10 last night.
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