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.
Evidence, not annoyance
Every report carries the tail number, the FAA-registered owner, the flight track over your neighborhood, and the exact minutes — from public ADS-B broadcasts. It’s a record, not a vibe.
It persists
A message can be archived in one click. A documented, verifiable pattern has to be dealt with. We keep the receipts — including which reports the Town archived without a disposition.
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.
Watch
Public ADS-B is monitored over Erie during the quiet-hours window.
Identify
Each circuit is matched to a tail number and its FAA-registered owner.
Document
The track, times, and passes become one structured, verifiable report.
File
It’s filed with the Town — and kept on the record whatever they do with it.
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