elkhunt

Erie Municipal Airport · EIK · a neighbor-run record

The 6 a.m. pattern work, on the record.

elkhunt is a community-led logbook for aircraft training noise over Erie. It combines live public ADS-B feeds with denser next-day archives, identifies each aircraft and its FAA-registered owner, and keeps the regional pattern visible — including days when the sensors ran but no track qualified.

Live & in testing — public sign-up opening soon
121aircraft documented
87mornings logged
2206low passes over Erie

The problem

Every morning before 8, the circuits start.

Aircraft fly repeated touch-and-go circuits over Erie neighborhoods in the quiet hours — contrary to the airport’s own published voluntary noise-abatement procedures. Filed one at a time, those complaints get read and quietly archived. Alone, each one disappears.

Why this is different

A complaint gets archived. A record has to be answered.

01

Evidence, not annoyance

Every qualifying session carries the tail number, FAA-registered owner, exact minutes, laps, and low passes — from public ADS-B broadcasts. It’s a record, not a vibe.

02

It persists

A message can be archived in one click. A documented, verifiable pattern has to be dealt with. We preserve the data and the historical filing record.

03

It adds up

One morning is noise. A quarter of tracked circuits, sorted by who owns the aircraft, is an audit — the kind of thing a Town Council and the local press can’t un-see.

STEP 01

Watch

Public ADS-B is monitored over Erie during the quiet-hours window.

STEP 02

Identify

Each circuit is matched to a tail number and its FAA-registered owner.

STEP 03

Document

The times, laps, low passes, aircraft, and operator become one structured, verifiable entry.

STEP 04

Publish

Coverage and qualifying sessions stay visible in one regional record, with completed days archive-verified.

A message a clerk can archive in a second. A documented, owner-attributed, ADS-B-verified record takes real work to answer — and real work to dismiss. That asymmetry is the whole point.

Why documenting beats complaining