Maloney asks about seaplane noise monitoring and abatement

Another frequent reported issue is noise.

The New York State Airport Director

Chapter 3 indicates that New York Skyports has noise abatement in effect for 24 hours, but what noise monitoring is currently being done and what noise abatement is in effect?

So noise abatement is typically done through the operating hours.

So like, oh no, it's only from dawn to dusk.

So nothing overnight.

We are also looking at potential new technologies, and this is going to be similar to those who track the helicopter issue, but for electric seaplane operations that are quieter.

So there's a couple of technologies out there, and we're actively engaged with industry to see how we can bring those and safely integrate them into the New York City airspace.

For both the issue of noise monitoring and tracking where planes are flying or where they're taking off from, what technologies is EDC looking into or is DOC MIC looking into to better enforce

these laws?

Yeah, so we use ADS-B tracking.

Which is automatic dependent surveillance, I think that's right, bandwidth.

And so that's a way, broadcast, sorry, that's what the B stands for, and this is a way to track movements of aircraft to see where they are positioned on the water and whether they are veering off.

So you can set a geographic box to see if they're outside where they're not supposed to be or where they're within the limits.