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airports named by HB24-1235
Good Neighbor Aviation uses public flight telemetry to hold Front Range airports to the noise commitments Colorado law requires, and to close the gap between the programs they file and the quiet mornings and evenings neighborhoods were promised.
Colorado's HB24-1235 (2024) ties state aviation funding to Front Range airports that establish and enforce community noise-abatement programs. All five named airports have a program. Filing one is a memo.
Enforcing it is a result. The five programs differ field to field, and each one is listed below. Where a field sets a curfew, the low training circuits often fly straight through the hours it is meant to keep quiet. Where it sets none, there is nothing to cross at all. Either way, we record every pass from public ADS-B data: the tail, the time, the altitude, and the homes underneath.
Ongoing, independent telemetry across all five airports. A public, verifiable record of what flies, when, and over whom. It doesn't depend on an airport's goodwill or an FAA complaint form.
The funding is already conditional. Tie it to enforcement you can measure, and an airport gains both the mandate and the reason to hold its operators to the program, instead of a policy that stays voluntary in practice.
Close the set-versus-enforce gap and make the rules reasonable: limits that actually protect sleep, not narrow carve-outs. For Erie that's simple: no pattern work before 8 a.m., period. Not a touch-and-go-only loophole that lets the circuits run anyway.
This isn’t airport-versus-neighbor. Bind the funding to real enforcement and everyone who kept the public promise wins: neighborhoods get their quiet hours back, the airports keep their grants and gain a reason to act, and the operators are simply held to the hours the community was already promised.
HB24-1235 names five Front Range airports, and each was left to write its own plan, so the protections vary field to field. Three set an early-morning touch-and-go curfew and two set none, and the evening rules differ just as much. Here is what each one published, morning and evening.
It's easy to read the first verb and stop there. Establishing a program is a document. Enforcing it is the part the telemetry measures, and the part the neighborhoods are still waiting for. That one word is where the accountability lives.
Good Neighbor Aviation is a Colorado nonprofit in formation, organized to run independent aviation-noise monitoring in the public interest and to advocate for enforceable community protections. We intend to apply for 501(c)(3) recognition and to fund the work through grants and public support.
We're not anti-aviation. We're pro-neighbor, and pro-accountability for a public commitment that came with public funding.