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Hanscom Field Advisory Commission Minutes – 15 February 2022 Prepared by Massport Staff Video of HFAC Meeting can be found on the BEDFORD TV YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpGZoHgJ7H08Lcm7aj90Gfw  Call to Order: HFAC Chairman Christopher Eliot called the meeting to order at 7:03pm  Announcements:  Chairman Eliot recording HFAC Meeting; welcomed all to 15 Feb meeting; dropped three documents into the chat  Chairman Eliot was honored to have Chris McCann, inventor of the Airnoise button, presenting  Chairman Eliot shared the electric Alice aircraft is being developed by Israeli company Eviation in Arlington, WA  Mike Vatalaro announced he did meet with a new temporary FAA representative who indicated he was willing to come to future HFAC  Chairman Eliot added law proposed by Massachusetts State Representative Sheila Harrington in the chat o Proposed law would prohibit training maneuvers within two miles of a hospital  Minutes: The January 2022 Meeting Minutes were reviewed for approval  The January 2021 Meeting Minutes were approved unanimously with the following amendments o Change “Board of Selectman” to “Select Board” o Add second “l” to Mitchell o Add “as far as she knows, Bedford has not received any applications for 5G”  Cargo or Scheduled Commercial Passenger Services  Chairman Eliot asked Massport the two questions about Cargo and Scheduled Commercial Passenger Services  Amber Goodspeed responded to the best of her knowledge, Massport has not been approached by heavy cargo or commercial scheduled passenger service  Agenda Items: Topics discussed on published agenda:  Airnoise Inventor Chris McCann gave a presentation of his Airnoise.io o Provides alternate method to file noise complaints by paying monthly fee for service o Software provides information to user by correlating aircraft in cylinder over user address at time of submission  Kay Corry Aubrey queried on how to sign up for an account, type of products and cost; can go to airnoise.io  Emily Mitchell questioned if the button gets overloaded; Airnoise user can only file one complaint per minute  Thomas Hirsch asked for summary of aircraft type and altitude: Mr. McCann would be happy to provide report  Dan Henry asked if terrain is taken into account; Mr. McCann indicated data can be seen in MSL or AGL o Asked if one user can sign up for multiple airports; users need to submit request to Airnoise.io o Asked why sometimes aircraft cannot be identified; Mr. McCann quoted problems with legacy system  Patty Dahlgren wanted to confirm Massport receives information seen on user dashboards; confirmed yes  Chris Boles queried about geographical information collection for citizen groups; anonymized data provided  Jennifer Boles asked about issue tagging aircraft for overlapping airports; Airnoise picks closer aircraft not airport o Wanted to know if Airnoise can track ground noise; Airnoise system excludes aircraft on ground  Monthly Noise Reports: Amber Goodspeed presented the January Report and noted that: In January 2022 as compared to January 2021:  7am - 11pm operations decreased 0.9% in January 2022  Singles (including touch and goes) decreased 18.8% in January 2022  Turbo activity increased 0.9% in January 2022  Jet operations increased 25.4% in January 2022  Helicopter activity increased 1.5% in January 2022  Night Operations (11pm-7am) increased from 135 in January 2021 to 154 in January 2022, a 14.1 % increase  Calendar year to date operations are down 6.1% in 2022 compared to 2019  Barbara Katzenberg thanked Massport for including the EXP definition and summary; makes it easier to read