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Ridgewood NJ, Look in the sky its a bird no its a plane and the new flight path to Teterboro Airport, intended to reduce noise around Hackensack University Medical Center, could take jets over Valley Hospital and Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Ridgewood . This according to a map of the new flight procedure published by a navigational aid company ahead of a six-month trial of the route, which is due to begin on Monday.
The Bergen Record is reporting that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has emphasized that its new they call it the “quiet visual” approach for Teterboro Airport shifts aircraft west of their current route to track Route 17 south from Mahwah to Rochelle Park. The idea is to minimize noise pollution by keeping aircraft over or close to the highway, itself a source of noise.
But the new flight procedure, published by Jeppesen, a Boeing company, shows that a significant portion of the approach takes pilots west of Route 17, particularly between Waldwick and Paramus.
The new flight path according to Jeppesen’s chart has jets approaching Teterboro dropping to a minimum of 3,000 feet around Mahwah, passing over Mahwah and Ramsey high schools. The next descend brings flights to about 2,000 feet, as they approach Julia A Traphagen Elementary School in Waldwick. Then planes would continue south, passing Ho-Ho-Kus Elementary School and, in Ridgewood, Benjamin Franklin Middle School and The Valley Hospital.
As flights continue over Paramus, jets will fly over Stony Lane School and Midland Elementary School as well as close by Bergen Community College, before coming in to land over the top of IKEA and the Westfield Garden State Plaza, while staying more than 1 mile west of Hackensack University Medical Center.
We are getting shafted left right and center
From the article in the paper, it looks like planes will be flying at 1000 feet above Ridgewood. I know that these are “corporate” type jets but some of them are just massive. Why did Hackensack Hospital get priority over Valley and all of the schools along this flight path. What is our Mayor or Council doing about this problem?
It’s no biggie. It will blend in with the construction noise.
it used to be that our council, our state representatives, our locally elected congresswoman would all fight for us on these issues. Now the council falls all over itself to see what it can do for the rest of the state and region. I don’t know, maybe I am selfish and myopic, but sure would be nice to have a Village council that fights for Villagers again.
What I find so strange about this change is that it is 100% opposed to the federal government policy on environmental justice which basically says you need to equally share the burden of pollution (including noise) and not concentrate it in one area (generally an economically disadvantaged area). The FAA’s reasoning for putting the flight path down Route 17 is that is already noisy so arbitrarily adding a source of noise is contrary to federal policy.
Hackensack hospital is well insulated and has nothing to do with this.
It’s the chronic complainers , the elitists who live in the high rises on prospect ave.
They bought next to the airport . Just like buying next to the train tracks or rt 17 it comes with noise.
They used political pressure to shift the noise to those of us who wouldn’t consider moving next to an airport.
My god what are you complaining about? The approach vectors for Teterboro’s ILS to runway 1-19 ALREADY have aircraft over Ridgewood at 1000 feet. Look out your window lately??? The new pattern will have a straight shot to the runway starting in Mahwah and following 17. STOP YOUR BITCHING.
It’s fun to BITCH.
Actually I see planes in the sky above Ben Franklin all the time , but don’t hear them. Are those the planes people are talking about.
They are amazing to watch.
Kind of laughable that the Twp of Mahwah is concerned about pollution.
Ford Motors dumped toxins in the soil up there for 50+ years….so long as the Twp got the rateables from Ford then everything was okay…
Why not land the smaller planes at Schedler thus eliminating the noise complaints from the automobiles on Route 17…?
11:45 (aka John B.) stop your YELLING.
Yep, there’s lots of corporate traffic already. Some nights the approach to EWR has jumbos banking out of their turns right above Ridgewood…if the weather’s nice and the windows are open you can hear them throttle up as they level off for the final approach.
This is the age in which we live. The downside of being able to go to sleep in Newark and wake up in London is that these planes make noise.
We can make the roof of the new garage the control tower for Teterboro.
It will be high enough!
Sounds like the Council majority at work again selling Ridgewood off to the lowest bidder.
3:43. Those high Gunny Towers can now field right turn lights for the Jumbos from to EUROPE
When I was a kid we lived under the approach route for JFK international airport. If we were in the backyard we weren’t able to talk as the planes descended overhead. Today’s corporate jets are so quiet I really don’t see what the issue is. I believe the flight path is to come south towards the airport over route 17. I would think that this route makes more sense than the one they use now, which is over my house. Seriously, doesn’t it make more sense to fly over route 17 with all the car and truck noise anyway than to fly our quiet neighborhoods.
6:11 – If it’s so quiet, why are they changing it? No one has been able to answer that question yet. The problem is that they won’t fly directly over Route 17 through Waldwick and Ridgewood; the flight path veers to the west of Route 17 for a distance and puts it right smack over BFMS, Valley Hospital, my house, Stony Lane ES, etc.