The Federal Aviation Administration’s recent proposal to impose a mandatory noise abatement helicopter route off Long Island, NY, may provide a regulatory pathway for airports and communities to follow in seeking their own mandatory noise abatement procedures, a former FAA attorney now representing airports told ANR. On May 26, FAA issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that would require civil helicopters operating under visual flight rules along a section of the northern shoreline of Long Island to follow the published New York North Shore Route, which was adopted on a voluntary basis in May 2008 as a way to address thousands of noise complaints. Neal Gerber Eisenberg  Litigation Practice Group partner Steven F. Pflaum is quoted extensively in a June 11, 2010 Airport Noise Report article.

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