"Button offers
instant gratification for those plagued by airplane noise":
Barbara Deckert has a new weapon in the war against airplane noise — and she’s not afraid to use it.
Every
time a plane flies over her suburban Maryland home, rattling her
windows and setting her teeth on edge, she presses a small white button
and feels a tiny sense of triumph. That’s
because with one click, Deckert has done what could have taken her hours to do a few months ago — she has filed a noise complaint with officials
at the Maryland Aviation Administration.
Thanks
to the ingenuity of a software engineer from Southern California,
Deckert and hundreds of others with similar beefs, and the Airnoise
button, have an easy way to register their annoyance with the jets that
fly over their homes.
“It’s a fabulous tool,” Deckert said. “Clicking that button is really psychologically satisfying.”
Officials
at airports from Seattle to Baltimore said Airnoise has led to a
dramatic spike in complaints. At Baltimore-Washington International
Marshall Airport, officials are almost certain Airnoise is the reason
complaints surged to 17,228 in August from 2,692 the previous month. In
San Diego, more than 90 percent of the complaints came through
third-party apps like Airnoise.
(Via
Tyler Cowen.)
