Blogging The Lazy FAA & Greedy Nashville Airport

More Misery On A Ruined Beautiful Day By The FAA and the BNA. It is NOT About The Wind, Nashville. Will Only Get Worse If You Let The FAA and BNA Continue To Screw You.

March 12, 2026

The wind is barely blowing, but the residents of Tusculum and McMurray have had to suck in the pollution and noise all day, many parts of the day every 45 to 60 seconds. In the Screen shot, a jet flown 80 miles out of the way because of a slight north breeze. More lazy FAA management and more Nashville Airport disrespect for our communities. I’m thinking now some 750 to 800 airplanes like this everyday over our homes. Not over the homes of FAA executives or the BNA executives (I don’t think they even fly airplanes over that huge corporate office near Donelson, even though it is so much closer to the airport than the homes being destroyed by its management.) I will pitch in to help sue this Nashville Airport—and eventually the Federal Aviation Administraton (the airport is the one that created a terrible plan for runway use). Others have to come along and fight for their homes and maybe even their lives. The stated reasons for this terrible flight management have always have been bogus. I am a broken record, but that is because too many of you have not yet heard the message, and certainly don’t understand what this airport and the FAA are doing to you and your families. The green line is where this jet was flown over the city, then way past the airport before doing a 180 turn around Spring Hill in WILLIAMSON COUNTY before flying back and dumping noise and jet fuel on us like the previous half-dozen jets before it, and the countless ones to come after it. The Nashville airport basically uses two runways for arriving and departing jets and gigantic cargo planes at 2 or 3 in the morning. Guess where tens of thousands of these airplanes are directed each month—right over South Nashville and at low dangerous and loud levels! That jet fuel is getting high, isn’t it? You think these airports an airlines are going to suck up that expense? No, this will be another way of dumping on us while flying 1,000 feet over our homes.

Is Crieve Hall Actually Hiring A Lawyer To Protect Its Families And Save It Homes? Meanwhile, Local Flight Controllers Are Ignoring Their Own Policy–Per Usual

March 7, 2026 (wind direction at 6 p.m.: 4 to 6 mph from SW)

It is 6 p.m. The wind is blowing from the south, yet the flight controllers at the Nashville Airport have already decided that a 4 to 6 mph southern wind is just like a 1 mph wind from the north. In other words, they are once again abusing homeowners in the Tusculum and McMurray areas in Davidson County (South Nashville) The wind will shift tomorrow, as it seems to always do on a Sunday, and for the 21st or 22nd Sunday out of the last 24 or 25 (it gets hard to remember) this discriminating Nashville Airport will steal another Sunday from communities that include many elderly and Hispanic homeowners.

Meanwhile, Crieve Hall–also in South Nashville–held an association meeting earlier this week (I was out of town, but understand this annual meeting was scheduled for a whopping 1 HOUR) and apparently was told a lawyer is being hired to fight against the theft of our homes from the the FAA, according to what I read on the local Next Door post. One hour though—how much can you possibly learn in 60 minutes during an annual meeting?

However, it is the Nashville Airport, the Airport Authority, and our local government that needs attention first, not the arrogant Federal Administration Association with its ever worsening track record. This has gone on way too long. It is time for this airport to pay for its sins. I do mean SINS as this airport has destroyed communities with noise and, only time will tell, with lung damaging pollutants.

In the screenshot, just one photo this evening of a jet being guided over homes despite the wind blowing from EXACTLY the opposite direction we have all been told dictates flight patterns.

Crieve Hall Assoc. Planning to Discuss Issues Destroying Our Homes (we shall see)

The Crieve Hall Neighborhood Association has scheduled its “annual” meeting For March 2

-The NES Will Consume Much The Attention From Participants, But It Is, And Will Always Be, The Nashville Airport & The FAA That Is Doing The Most Damage To Our Families And Community.

The NES Needs Attention, The BNA and FAA Are In Dire Need Of Management Changes.

Will Our Local Council Representative Be There to Discuss Our Various Issues, Will An NES Representative Be Present? Or, Will Airport CEO Doug Kreulen, or Anyone From The Airport or the FAA, Be Present to Answer Our Questions? If Not, This is Just Another Waste Of Our Time And An Insult To Our Intelligence, Hard Work, and Health?

In the screen show below, yet another of hundreds of jets that have flown over Crieve Hall in recent days, many that come into our community, dumping noise and pollution on us, and then being directed back past the airport on a path to New York, Detroit, Canada, and all other areas that make no sense (I don’t accept the direction of the wind argument).

Meeting, Monday March 2:

Doors open at 6 p.m., meeting begins at 6:30 at Crievewood Baptist Church.

The screen shot that follows is one of many that I could have taken today. This passenger jet, guided by the FAA with the BNA using two of four runways open for arrivals and departures, dumped on Crieve Hall yet again. We are now well into the thousands, or tens of thousands, of jets flying over our homes and then being guided back past the airport on nonsense destinations.

An Amazon Cargo jet woke me up at 2 a.m. Feb. 25 heading in a similar direction. I bet it woke up a few others, too, as it came over our homes at about 3,500 feet. This was noise and pollution while we tried to sleep in the homes we worked so hard to own over 30 years.

February 25, 2026

Blogging The The Dirty BNA/ FAA as More Nonstop Flights Announced

February 20, 2026:

As I enjoy listening to the kids below my home bouncing on a trampoline, I watch the 20th or so jet fly over our homes in the last hour, maybe 3,500 feet above us. Here comes another spewing its poison.

Again, an AI research tells us about the dangers of men and women getting rich at our expense when so many options manage the Nashville Airport differently, but white-collar greed doesn’t t mind who they kill provided they make more money. We in South Nashville are much like Caribbean fishermen. We didn’t do anything to deserve our fate. We weren’t warned and we weren’t tried in court.

Others across our national have named it the sacrificial zones. You have to fight to get America back from this greed that a large population of Americans value so richly.

From AI research: Recent research and health studies indicate that while airports are vital infrastructure hubs, the noise and air pollution they generate pose significant, documented health risks to surrounding residents, with impacts often more pronounced in lower-income communities. Studies suggest that chronic exposure to aircraft noise and pollution is linked to serious, long-term health issues.

Please read below. The Nashville Airport is where it is, and that is not going to change, but that the management and the FAA allows two runways to go ignored–especially the one facing the city’s prevalent wind direction–tells you that the thousands of aircraft arriving and departing to and from Nashville are being directed for profit and not for safety. I submitted an Freedom of Information request now some four years ago from the FAA (America’s most arrogant agency) and was ignored. I wanted to know historic use of Nashville runways. This did not seem to me to be privileged information and certainly not dangerous to anyone who had come and gone long ago, but I was ignored.

February 15, 2026

So one of the Next Door sites disclosed today that Southeast Airlines will be adding more nonstop flights come October. For tens of thousands of us it will mean more noise and more very dangerous pollutants over and in our homes from low-flying jets directed everywhere but straight. You can see plenty of silly flight patterns below as the FAA, working with the BNA (behind closed doors and not with Nashville residents), decided the wind dictates air traffic patterns. Those of us who watch the app Flightradar24 known that the predominant winds are from the southwest or the northeast, but most airplanes that arrive or depart at that dirty and expanding airport are directed to the same two runways that primarily face north/south. They have a slight slant in them, but often depart or arrive with the wind against them. Many days the wind is barely a whisper and yet this airport and the FAA still use the routes they devised behind closed doors that have discriminated against the same homeowners. Our council representatives never told us this was coming. The following are a list of pollutants that come out of the back those jets (now some 700 to 800 arriving daily–and probably that many departing, or close) at low levels over the same homes in South Nashville. As I have said many times now, I will contribute toward a lawsuit against this airport if others will help. Sue the airport first, consider the FAA later. It is difficult to obtain a lawyer on your own. I am 0 for 10 as most don’t answer or those that do “have a conflict.” I have to say if one of these planes hit our home I would have NO PROBLEM getting a lawyer. I know there are some good ones out there. I’m just not having luck so far.

This airport is destroying parts of our city for no good reason and the FAA is complicit. Both of them are at fault for what this airport has done and will only continue to do at greater destruction in the months and years ahead until forced to use all their runways and hire FAA controllers who understand they were not hired to poison us or ruin our homes in Nashville or anywhere else in America.

From AI research (deep dive–I asked about pollutants that the Nashville Airport is dumping on us (IF YOU ARE JUST ONE PERSON READING THIS, TELL YOUR FRIENDS WHO LIVE UNDER OR NEAR THESE PLANES. THE STUFF BELOW FLOATS MANY MILES–MORE OF YOU ARE IMPERILED THAT YOU THINK):

Primary Pollutants from Nashville International Airport (BNA) –allowed by the Federal Aviation Administration

In its environmental documentation, BNA monitors six “criteria” pollutants regulated by the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) that can impact residential health: 

• Particulate Matter (PM-2.5 and PM-10): Fine soot and dust that can penetrate deep into the lungs.
• Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2): A byproduct of high-temperature jet engine combustion that contributes to respiratory issues.
• Carbon Monoxide (CO): Produced by incomplete fuel combustion, particularly during idling or taxiing.
• Sulfur Dioxide (SO2): Emitted from the combustion of sulfur-containing jet fuel, which can lead to respiratory problems.
• Ozone (O3): Formed when aircraft emissions react with sunlight at ground level.
• Lead (Pb): While largely phased out for commercial jets, it can still be present in emissions from smaller piston-engine aircraft using leaded fuel. DOUG NOTE: IF THIS MEANS AIR TAXIS AND PERSONAL JETS WE ARE BEING BOMBARDED); 

Additional Hazardous Substances

Beyond these primary categories, research on communities under flight paths highlights exposure to:

• Ultrafine Particles (UFP): Extremely small particles (less than 0.1 micron) that are not routinely monitored by the federal government but can enter the bloodstream.
• Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs): Including hazardous air pollutants like benzene and formaldehyde, which are known or suspected carcinogens.
• Greenhouse Gases: Primarily Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and water vapor, which contribute to climate change and regional warming. 

Recent Local Concerns

Residents in Crieve Hall and Tusculum have noted that new FAA flight patternsimplemented in early 2025 cause aircraft to throttle and accelerate at lower altitudes directly over their homes. This increased thrust during takeoff typically leads to a higher concentration of emissions released directly over residential properties compared to previous years.  In the screenshot below, jets every 45 seconds to 60 seconds apart, about 1,000 feet above these same homes—this is the 21st or 22nd Sunday out of 23 or 24 (hard to keep. up with) where the BNA and FAA and Nashville Airport Authority have dumped chemicals and noise on the same homes and on homes many miles from where the lazy FAA is guiding flights. Dangerous, cruel, and sinful.

In the photo below, Nashville Airport CEO Doug Kruelen pointing toward South Nashville and celebrating the airport and the airport authority’s decision, along with the and the FAA, to destroy a community with pollution and noise from low-flying nonstop jets and, sometimes with military cargo planes and fighter jets.

Just messing with you Mr. Kruelen, but I bet you don’t live in the communities you helped destroy. I bet your family doesn’t live in communities either that are occupied by long-owning homeowners and now with many young Hispanics. Was this part of your plan devised without public input? I will always think this was a well thought out and evil plan.

February 8, 2026 (Wind southeast 5 mph)

Well, it is a Sunday, so here come the Nashville Airport Jets–DESPITE THE WIND having finally shifted to the southeast up to 5 mph so far. Day after day after day the FAA and the BNA have flown what amounts to thousands of commercial and private jets over our homes in Tusculum, McMurray and surrounding areas. But per usual, despite the wind change from the north to the south, the brilliant FAA controllers at the airport are still pushing the same buttons and flying airplane 1,000 feet above the same homes. (I measured 1 yesterday 900 feet above the row of houses near Fairlane Drive) are shaking our homes and dropping only God knows how much pollution on us. The red date above indicates wind direction that the FAA and BNA says determines flight direction of its jets. I post this date and color when the the FAA and BNA are doing JUST THE OPPOSITE of what they say, but not what they do. I took a screen shot yesterday with 9 airplanes lined up and waiting to come over our homes. I’m sure once those nine landed, another nine or 10 or 11 followed in quick succession. I went inside as the noise and the pollution are dangerous. I think by now I have proved without doubt the total disrespect for the lives of thousands of homeowners chosen by a few people as losers in the expansion of the Nashville airport and and the nationally recognized failure of the satellite guidance system managed by the FAA. Do you really think we have a shortage of FAA controllers? I think more it is the cold evolving of Artificial Intelligence and and people who support it.

Where is the government is supposed to protect all of its citizens? One day South Nashville, I hope you get your dignity and your homes returned to you. No reason for this behavior. Greed sprouts from this city like dandelions.

February 6, 2026:

South Nashville–Tusculum, McMurray, surrounding areas (Williamson County, too)—read the information below and look at the photo and screen shot above. Understand you are being strangled to death by this dangerous airport and by the Federal Aviation Administration that allows its to fly giant polluting and noisy jets over your homes every 45 seconds to a minute because it is too lazy or too cheap to use other runways. This airport and the FAA owes South Nashville a lot for what it has done to homeowners–but it could begin with an honest explanation. This is only going to get worse as greed just gets greener and the FAA seems to only get lazier. These jets are being flown over homes that have been owned by some of the residents for 40 to 60 years. This airport wants flights coming over our homes from Asia among its never ending search for more money. Will the FAA allow more endangerment of our skies and our homes? The FAA is being reorganized, supposedly, but respecting homeowners apparently is not included in those much needed changes. The Nashville Airport Authority and the Airport’s secretive CEO also need to be removed and replaced with good and honest Nashville residents.

February 4:

Question, FAA, BNA–How many jets are you guiding over the same homes on the very lazy and greedy arrival route? Last count it was about 700, but I think it has gone up since then? Have you done any evironmental studies to see who this nonstop traffic is making sick? Can you tell us how many low-flying aircraft are coming over Tusculum and McMurray? Can you tell us what the same routes are necessary? Can you tell us why two runways remain unused for departures or arrivals? Can you tell us who made you God? Do you pray for forgiveness every Sunday at your local church for what you have done and are doing for money?

February 2 (Groundhog Day Continues To Choke The Same Homeowners, But With More Chemicals and Noise Than Ever)

Everything like it has been for way too long, but now this airport and the FAA has added flights to Toronto. So happy to do so, but so determined to act like this wont’ add more chemical exhaust and noise to the same homes, ears, and lungs. I’m taking care of my personal ice issues (not ICE issues–though that certainly sucks in an other murdering sort of way) but I’ll continue to document how the FAA, the Nashville Airport, its CEO Doug Kreulen, and the airport authority board, continue to choke us while raking in millions. The photo above is as true today as it was when taken, and will be for a long time to come. Tusculum, McMurray, Crieve Hall–you can sit on your hands, or find true representation and begin to get your city back. Giving you an update on the latest NES progress is what a representative should do—but it doesn’t remotely compare to how south Nashville was blindsided by the Nashville Airport, its executives, the Airport Authority, and the FAA. The FAA is under reorganization, but so far, I have seen nothing to indicates this arrogant agency–or the greedy airports that work with them–are going to change anything that makes our life safer on the ground. Rather, just keep things at is it and continue to attack the same people over and over and over again.

January 21, 2026

Per usual, this dirty Nashville Airport and the boondoggle Next Gen Satellite Guidance System has destroyed another dinner hour in Tusculum, Crieve Hall, and McMurray. You might not be able to see the exhaust tonight, but it looks like the photo at the top of this page. Let me know, South Nashville, if you ever decide to sue this terrible airport and the men and women who hid its destruction from us, I will pay my portion of a lawsuit–maybe then–if we work together–a law firm might actually return an email or telephone call.

My hope for this weekend, we get enough snow and ice (I want everyone to be safe, of course) that this airport has to ground flights and that we–especially South Nashville–can remember when our city was more beautiful and quiet and the his airport acted like a good neighbor.

January 20, 2026

Outstanding FAA management again tonight! The FAA and BNA seemingly are on a mission to destroy South Nashville as it guides airplanes 60 to 80 miles over SN and dumps pollution and noise on Tusculum, McMurray, and Crieve Hall. Terrible management by a poorly managed airport by FAA and BNA. You can see how far this jet is flown out of the route because the wind is blowing 5 mph maybe, from the South. The redline is from the airport to the jet’s path to New York. Yes, New York!

January 18, 2026

The FAA and BNA began the day flying jets over Tusculum and McMurray as the wind howled 3 or 4 mph from some direction that allegedly included the north; then about noon, Crieve Hall became a part of the Nashville Airport’s extended tarmac as airplane after airplane destroyed our Sunday afternoon and evening, as the howling wind allegedly turned south to some degree a tad before 5 p.m., with more are dumping noise and shitty pollution over Tusculum, McMurray, and Crieve Hall. Meanwhile, two runways of the four located at this dirty airport remained virtually unused and one of them, Runway 31-13 should have been used if the wind is actually so important to airplane guidance.

This is only going to get worse as the BNA and FAA make zillions of dollars while destroying our homes we worked so hard to obtain. You can expect more of the same in 2026 and just wait–the FAA will give this greedy airport permission to for flights to and from Asia while not doing a thing to protect us from noise and pollution represented by the photo at the top of this page. We need STRONG and HONEST representation in Tusculum, McMurray, and Crieve Hall. Below, a typical flight that dumps on South Nashville. They happen all day long.

January 15, 2026

This hasn’t stopped since last night. I can’t prove it as the screen shot disappeared quickly from Flight24 today, but I believe a commercial aircraft barely missed a military cargo plane today at around 12:30. The commercial jet (didn’t note which one) seemed to pass over the huge military jet by a few hundred feet. The screen shot I hoped to capture disappeared as if neither of the two aircraft were even in the area. Maybe someone else saw this, too. Why did it disappear? How close were these two aircraft and why?

The screenshot below is what continues through today as the the BNA and FAA continue to dump on South Nashville. What happens when this local FAA finally screws up worse than usual and we have a collision over heavily populated areas. The Nashville Airport is direction way too many airplanes the same homes.

South Nashville, Williamson County, expect thousands and thousands of these jets over your homes this coming few weeks as the BNA and FAA refuses to alter routes or use all of its runways–at our expense.

January 14, 2026:

The wind has shifted so that there is actually some north to it. That is all the BNA and the lazy FAA satellite system needs to send giant polluting airplanes and ever-increasing private jets over the same homes for hours and hours and hours. How would you like this in your neighborhood? Warning to homeowners–don’t let your children go out and breath this poison (like you see above.)The FAA and BNA refuses to alter routes and have established flight patterns behind our backs. The executive of these outfits know how dangerous these airplanes are. They DO NOT live underneath them.

This airport and the FAA has chosen you and your children as the sacrifices they are willing to make in order to enrich themselves. If I sound like a broken record, that is because the warnings I give need repetition. Americans are NOT equal in the eyes of Nashville’s government leaders, that dirty airport, or the excessively arrogant FAA.

These aircraft are flying well below 2,000 feet above your homes in McMurray and Tusculum. The noise is horrible, the exhaust is deadly. What you see below are 6 aircraft flying over the same homes maybe 60 seconds apart. That is not enough, though, as the FAA is going to let this dirty airport increase the traffic in and out of it.

Blogging The FAA and BNA: The Death of Crieve Hall in 2025 (The FAA and BNA killed Tusculum and McMurray Long Before They Destroyed Crieve Hall)

I know we reminisce on the death of people who entertained us in 2025. However, some of those we look back on did much damage to our world, nation, or neighborhoods. As the giant polluting and noisy jets come over our homes all day on the last day of the year–and will continue to do increase the traffic overhead in 2026–I want to note the DEATH of Crieve Hall in 2025 and its once beautiful quiet space on this planet. As we continue to suck down the noise and pollution, the lazy Federal Aviation Administration and its contented flight controllers–is seriously considering the airport’s request to allow more gigantic airplanes from Asia over our homes. They will be added to the tens of thousands of poisonous jets that to fly over the same homes year round.

Crieve Hall, Tusculum, McMurray, you have helped allow this to happen by sitting on your hands. The fireworks tonight–on this last day of 2025 and first day of 2026–will be muted by the nonstop jets flying over us and then turning 180 degrees to cruise by the dirty airport that the the lazy FAA has allowed. The aircraft over Crieve Hall might be a little higher, sometimes, but it is still loud and you can expect the number of departing flights to increase over our homes. The pollutants are still bad, though just maybe they could dissipate a little more, at least the flights that sometimes reach 4,000 feet above our roofs. Crieve Hall and McMurray, however, were selected behind closed doors long ago for abuse no one deserves in America.

Fight for your rights, or realize your children will one day be adults sucking on inhalers because of their damaged lungs. You will wonder why? How did my kids get so sick? It is not just the noise that is so disrespectful from these jets that find a way to turn their exhaust on us, it is the greedy leadership of the Nashville Airport executives of the FAA. The know what they are doing. Go vote this year, and hire a good representative. Understand, just because this airport expanded does not mean it could have been wiser and more fair in how it directed aircraft into and away from our city.

Happy New Year—especially to those of you who fight for your peace and health. You express courage when so many others watch our community perish.

In the screenshot below is one of many passenger jets that dodge the richest community in this city after dumping noise and pollution on South Nashville homeowners.

December 31, 2024

Blogging the FAA and BNA: Watch Out For The Planes, Santa, And Wear A Mask So You Don’t Choke

December 23, 2025

As Crieve Hall, Tusculum, McMurray, and thousands of Williamson County homes get to greet Christmas and the New Year with their doors closed and their TVs on high volume, the executives of the FAA, BNA, Metro Airport Authority, and Metro government in general will enjoy their Christmas Eve and Christmas in their quiet and and clean homes. Meanwhile, if Santa hasn’t been to Nashville since last year, he needs to make sure to wear a mask and use his radar–like friendly and talented FAA flight controllers once used before the BNA and FAA took over our communities with noise and pollution. Be careful, Santa, these people would not be on your good list.

I will watch with you on Christmas morning to see if the FAA and BNA chose to guide their airplanes over the same homes against its very own wind policy. Meanwhile, let us hope that 2026 brings some poetic justice to those that have been terribly mistreated.

Update: They did. It sucked all day. It will always suck until the FAA and BNA learn no one made them God and restore previous flight routes that were fair to everyone.

Merry Christmas to the good people of Nashville, of Tennessee, of America, and to the Earth. Peace to you. Millions of you do not deserve to be treated as you have been by this airport or the Federal Aviation Administration for far too long. You can change this by voting.

Peace to you, and good health in 2026 South Nashville and America.

Blogging the FAA and BNA: 14th In A Row–Our Sundays Gone in South Nashville–Christmas Next.

December 21, 2025: This now MARKS THE 14TH SUNDAY in a row that the FAA, BNA, and Metro Airport Authority have guided low flying airplanes over Tusculum and McMurray. 14! Where do you suppose they are enjoying their beautiful Sunday. Working behind our backs some more?

Even though I know the wind is just a big excuse for the FAA to utilize its lousy satellite systems and the BNA to make as much money as possible–at our expense–at least the wind is from the North today. That isn’t always the case when these entities make the decision to fly over the same homes some 700 times a day. And then, there is this:

AI Overview:

Nashville International Airport (BNA) is continuously adding flights, with several airlines launching new routes in 2025 and 2026, including Southwest adding service to Montego Bay, San José, Knoxville, Little Rock, and Montrose in March 2026; Frontier adding Phoenix in March 2026; Avelo adding Charlotte in February 2026; and Air Canada increasing service to Montreal and adding seasonal Vancouver flights in Summer 2025, significantly boosting BNA’s daily and weekly schedules to over 100+ nonstop destinations. (Doug note: The FAA is also considering flights to and from Asia—can you imagine the size, noise, and danger of these airplanes 1,000 feet above our homes that, at least by road, is 10 to 12 miles away from the airport. We have expanded out here in South Nashville, but the airport has–now crossing well past Murfreesboro Road. Other runways have been ignored while the plan to destroy chosen neighborhoods has been kept silent.

Doug Note: South Nashville, the FAA is closing its Nextgen office because it has been a fantastic failure and this failure has not included the damage caused to chosen homeowners. This airport has four runways, it uses two for departures and arrivals. Notice how much the air traffic has increased just in a few weeks from this photo to the one closer to the top of the page.

Blogging the FAA and BNA: Good Nexgen Office, But Don’t Expect This Failed System To Be Improved For Homeowners

December 19, 2025:

From an AI search: The FAA Office of NextGen has not closed yet, but its termination is mandated by the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 to occur by the end of 2025. 

The responsibilities of the NextGen office will be shifted to a new Airspace Modernization Office, and the FAA is currently planning for a new $31.5 billion modernization effort to replace core infrastructure. (Doug Note: This was after some $35 to $40 billion (maybe more) was spent on the terrible Nextgen satellite guidance system that has destroyed communities across America, but no worse than Tusculum and McMurray. I wonder how many hours and days and weeks have been spent behind closed doors working on this next boondoggle while the US Congress, the FAA, and airports like the BNA take over our communities. Some folks may be figuring this out as the Boring Company worked behind closed doors to built an underground tunnel to the dirty Nashville International Airport).

The NextGen program, a two-decade initiative to modernize U.S. air traffic control with satellite-based technology and digital communications, has faced criticism for delivering only a fraction of its expected benefits and experiencing significant delays and cost overruns. Key elements of the program are still being deployed and are expected to continue beyond the 2025 termination of the specific office. (Doug note: None of these key elements involve compensating residents for having their homes stolen form them by their own local, state, and federal government).

The official FAA NextGen website still provides information about the program’s current capabilities and plans.

From Doug: Today, the giant jets and increasing number of private planes (like the one that crashed in North Carolina on December 18 and killed everyone on board) continue to be added to flights over our homes. This airport is now wanting to add transcontinental flights from Asia that will, no doubt, be among the airplanes decimating parts of Nashville. The FAA needs to REFUSE this request until the BNA learns how to treat homeowners. It is time the FAA placed Tusculum and McMurray in its NOISE IMPACT AREA and that residents be compensated for what this greedy airport and lazy FAA satellite system has done to them.

From an AI search (December 14, 2025) as giant jets continue tonight for the 13th Sunday in a row to destroy the same homes

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is scheduled to close its dedicated NextGen office by the end of 2025, transitioning away from the fragmented program to a new, centralized $30+ billion air traffic control modernization effort called BNATCS (Brand New Air Traffic Control System, or BS–for bullshit). This shift follows years of NextGen being over budget, behind schedule, and failing to meet goals, with the FAA now taking lessons (Doug note: this not include human life on the ground) learned to implement a single, accountable… unified system.  (Doug note: As our councilman in Crieve Hall weakly told us a few months ago, the FAA will continue to destroy our homes and there isn’t a thing she can do about it. Maybe not, but she should have held a community meeting as requested. America is being ransacked, but no more severely than South Nashville.)

Blogging the FAA and BNA: 13 In A Row!

December 14, 2025

This marks the 13th Sunday in a row that Tusculum and Crieve Hall have been victimized nonstop by passenger jets (see above for one of 700 examples today) Thirteen of the best days of the week stolen yet again from the same homeowners by the BNA, FAA, and Metro Airport Authority. All because the airport refuses to use other runways—THOUGH–I will note earlier this week, for the first time in a long time, flight controllers at least used one of the two runways for “arriving” air traffic, which at least gave the homeowners a small break from pollution and noise.

This kind of common sense might, of course, may cost the airport a few dollars and force flight controllers to concentrate again and treat us ALL with dignity; treat us like they treat their own families. The Nextgen Satellite office, wherever it is, is scheduled to CLOSE this month because this 20 year old guidance system has cost American taxpayers billions of dollars and millions of homeowners agony, is now labeled a HUGE failure for reasons that don’t even include how homeowners across America have been mistreated. This system slowly spread across the nation during its two decades, targeting the same communities, The FAA refused during this that span of time to alter flight routes, and has ignored millions of calls from homeowners asking for relief. More satellite guidance is to come, however; more billions of taxpayer dollars wasted on it, too, with likely no respectful changes in flight patterns or the noise and pollution dumped over the same homes. Change won’t happen in Nashville until the victims of this airport get together and let our local government know we have had enough. No one elected FAA executives or flight controllers to anything, nor the executives of the BNA, nor the even the members of the Metro Airport Authority. These people targeted specific areas. Our local government is largely responsible for this mess, but the FAA is the most arrogant federal agency in this country. Scroll down and you will see what a typical Sunday (and many days during the week) look like in Tusculum, but also other selected parts of this city. You will also learn why Nextgen is a failure, how low flying jets make people sick (or kill them), and learn what a noise impact area is. In this case, one that has excluded homes that should be compensated for the loss of their privacy, serenity, and maybe their health.

Blogging the FAA and BNA: Lacking Common Sense

December 9, 2025: You can decide for yourself how brilliant this flight plan is. Had the airport used Runway 13/31, it would have shared its noise and pollution with other parts of Nashville. In addition, this bypassing of the wealthiest areas of Nashville is by now obvious. Has been for a long time. I call it the Belle Meade Dodge. This does not mean the FAA doesn’t sometimes send a jet or two over wealthy homeowners. I have written a couple of the local “news” stations about the stories they have done where the pitiful homeowner is begging for relief, but there is never a followup by these stations. And none ever interview someone from the airport, or the FAA.

Blogging the FAA and BNA: If It Is A Sunday, Wind Direction Does Not Matter, Airplanes Are Coming Over Tusculum and Mc Murray—700 Of Them Stealing The Best Day Of The Week Now 11 Sundays In A Row

December 7, 2025 (South wind 4 mph):

As I predicted the Nashville Airport, the Metro Airport Authority and the Federal Aviation Administration are ignoring the wind policies they have duped so many of us with, at least the people who supposedly represent us in local government. The photo I keep posted at the top of this page is what Tusculum and McMurray will get all day DESPITE THE WIND BLOWING FROM DUE SOUTH, the exact opposite of where the wind should should be coming from in order for low flying commercial and poisonous jets to fly nonstop, every 45 seconds to 1 minute, over the same homeowners. The wind this morning is mild, but it is from the south. If it was mild and from the north, these airplanes would still be directed over Tusculum and McMurray homes. This has happened numerous times. It is obvious by now this area is not a NO FLY Over Zone. Tt appears, at least on Sundays, to be protecting other communities from nonstop fly overs.

Watch the airplanes today fly 60 to 80 around that airport only to come back over Tusculum and McMurray Homes and then back to the airport and against the wind as described by the FAA. The wind will be behind the airplanes, not in front of them creating lift, or whatever technical term the FAA uses to abuse Tusculum and McMurray. This at least the four times in the last 2 months (scroll down and red dates indicate the FAA flying against its state wind policy over Tusculum and McMurray) that the FAA has ignored its on policies and destroyed the beauty of Sundays over our homes for reasons I would try to find out why this happens, but would be ignored as I have been often by the airport and the FAA and our local government. The video on this page is what it will sound like, feel like if you live in these homes. The pollutants, as you can see in the top photograph, will fall on the same homes as it has done almost ever days since Thanksgiving, despite wind direction.

Flightradar24 is an excellent app to see flight directions taken, while windy.com is excellent for displaying wind direction across the country, including that airport which is now trying to have transcontinental flights from Asia fly over the same homes. One of other observation, if the wind continues to blow from the South, the local controllers will redirect low flying poisonous jets over other areas, specifically Crieve Hall, once the best part of the day is over. –D.M, posted 9:45 a.m. (Update: I was NOT totally correct. It only took the FAA until about noon to see the wind was coming from the south. That doesn’t mean things are good in Tusculum, because they are not, but rather than a 10 out of 10 on the disrespect shown this community, it is a 9 out o f 10. Two runways continue to go unused as this airport decimates South Nashville.

December 4, 2025: Every Day of the month so far has looked like this video. One of 700 jets over McMurray and Tusculum today. More than 2,000 since December 1 (updated to approximately 3,000, Dec. 7). You’ll see how loud at end of brief video. The FAA needs to place this area in its noise impact zone and the Nashville Airport needs to place modern noise silencing windows and filtration systems in thousands of homes in this path used nonstop. It also needs to open up its two other runways for arriving and departing aircraft. I want to sue the Metro Airport Authority and BNA executives for allowing this to happen and refusing to alter flight routes. It knows the noise and pollution from these aircraft will likely make people sick and/or kill them. I wondered today if some of these airplanes were going to clear our homes. The exhaust is bad enough, the level and number of fights is getting more dangerous every time that airport allows more jets to enter the space over our homes. If there is anyone out there willing to to pursue a lawsuit, I am. If I could bring assault charges against these people, I would. Everything they have done has been premeditated. As a reminder, these homes were built in the 1950s and this never happened until our U.S. Congress gave the FAA the power to ignore the millions of people its flight decisions have angered for basically stealing their homes. Read down this page to learn more about decibel level thresholds for safety, about exhaust, and how certain areas of Nashville–chosen behind closed doors–were placed in “sacrifice zones” by people who don’t live among us.

Blogging the FAA and BNA: Are they at 7,000 Feet Above Our homes Yet. No, and unless we stop them they won’t ever be

December 3, 2025: For a while the FAA guided giant polluting noisy airplanes low over Tusculum and McMurray today, then it switched course and guided them into Crieve Hall (and still over Tusculum) with the wind at 3 mph from the South. These airplanes were flown 20 to 80 miles out of the way for 3 mph. What I noticed today, and will continue to point out, is that the airplanes are NO WHERE NEAR the 7,000 foot altitude when coming into Crieve Hall that Crieve Hall’s councilman promised they would be after meeting with the FAA a couple of months ago. We were not invited to this meeting, which is so typical of today’s politicians. We have no idea what was really said and we now can see what we were told is not happening; nor is it going to. The screen shot below shows a a giant commercial jet passing over the Trousdale area at less than 3,000 feet above our roofs as the BNA, FAA, and Metro Airport Authority continue to ignore two other runways for departures and arrivals and destroys the same homes with noisy, pollution, and disrespect for our lives.

Blogging the FAA and BNA: Another day, another 700 airplanes over the same homes, while 2 runways remain unused and the FAA considers letting this airport add more international flights that will no doubt rattle and pollute the same homes with more BNA greed

December 2, 2025: Other than the hour or so that the FAA directed airplanes over Crieve Hall last night–for reasons yet to be understood–the flight control staff (is there actually one?) is guiding some 700 low and polluting noisy jets over our homes, like usual in Tusculum and McMurray–areas that have been so discriminated against by the FAA and the BNA that it is hard to understand why the communities haven’t gotten together to put an end to it. No one wants to live under 8,000 airplanes every month. Actually, a lot more than that. Neither do the executives of the Metro Airport Authority, or the the BNA, or the FAA. Why are two runways being ignored for departures and arrivals? Why is Metro allowing this to happen? How many complaints has their airport and the FAA received? Why aren’t there enough controllers to guide airplanes in a more fair manner–why is there a shortage of these people on a national level? Never believe what the FAA or the BNA says. They do not care about you.

I don’t think there is a worse case of abuse by the a city toward its residents anywhere else in America. Crieve Hall may be the second most abused in the natoin.

Meanwhile, the BNA is unable to control its passenger traffic using I-40 to get to the airport–on time–and is now talking about adding flights to Asia. Why would the FAA even consider this as the BNA is poorly operated, apparently understaffed with controllers, and has not regard for destroying the homes of the same residents day after day? It makes no sense. Same ole same ole with this airport. You can breath the greed when you drive past this place.

Blogging the FAA and BNA: What Are The FAA and BNA Doing This Evening?

December 1, 2025:

After directing one jets over another today in Tusculum and McMurray, the the FAA and BNA decided to start directing polluting and loud jets over Crieve Hall homes. I saw no great shift in the wind that mattered, but if there must be some excuse. The FAA and FAA should have used Runway 13-31 today, like many days. That would have made more since than flying jets so far out of the way this evening over Crieve Hall Homes. This airplane flight management is a mess and South Nashville is the recipient of of it.

Blogging the Faa and BNA: Tenth Sunday In A Row Over Same Homes As FAA, BNA, And Metro Airport Authority Destroy The Best Day Of The Week Yet Again With Flights every 45 to 60 Seconds Over Same South Nashville Homes Where None Of Them Live

Blogging the FAA and BNA: Local Controllers Destroy Another Thanksgiving, Then Followup The Next Day With Flights Less Than 1,000 Feet Over Tusculum

As predicted weeks ago, the Nashville Airport and the BNA flew airplanes so close together on Thanksgiving-that you couldn’t have put one airplane between another. Wrong, yes you could, if you are damned greedy and don’t care about whose homes you destroy.

Today, November 28, the BNA and FAA were guiding commercial jets less than 1,000 feet above Tusculum homes. I don’t know if anyone sees this website, but I do think the FAA sees my occasional comments on the Nextdoor platform. The people that destroy our homes know that I know how dishonest they are and how lazy the the Nextgen Satellite guidance system has made them. Flight controllers don’t do what they used to. They do not have their eyes pressed against a screen directing airplanes with radar.

I personally think the government is attempting to replace flight controllers with Artificial Intelligence, but so far the billions and billions spent has done nothing more than to make matters worse at great taxpayer expense to all Americans, and to the detriment to the health and fairness of millions of others.

The Nashville International Airport is greedy to the point of corruption. I wonder what all goes on behind closed doors at that place. The screen shot below shows a couple of arriving flights on the Flightradar24 app, but they went back as far as the app would let you see and were coming over the same homes about every minute on Thanksgiving and today, but today you could read every word on ever jet as they flew so low that they were under 400 yards from the top of our homes. I expect the executives of the BNA and FAA understand this distance, as it represents about the length of a golf hole that is a Par 4.

Meanwhile, Runway 13-31 was not being used AGAIN for either departing or arriving flights. I circled it Runway 13/31. I also circled two airplanes that had just dumped noise and pollution over Tusculum and McMurray with thousands of jets much like them having done the same over the last four consecutive days, including on an otherwise gorgeous Thanksgiving day that I expect BNA and FAA executives enjoyed with their families in quiet homes far away from polluting and loud jets.

Runway 13-31 should be used often. Daily. For departing and/or arriving flights.There are four runways in in total. The airport came up with various reasons not to us 13/31, but it all is about money, otherwise it would have shared its decisions with the public. This in itself should tell you what you need to know about this airport and its desire to make as much money as possible no matter how many homes it destroys. Greedy, cruel, sinful, and lazy. This blog will be here for a long time FAA and BNA whether you ever get past the terrible neighbors you have become.

Blogging The FAA and BNA: A Plane Every 60 Seconds Despite Flying Against The Wind

November 26, 2025 (West Wind 10 plus MPH):

I hope everyone that has been so abused by the Nashville Airport will have some peace tomorrow, on OUR Thanksgiving (for Tusculum and McMurray, this did not happen. It was terrible, per usual). Maybe the airport will take a day off. Once again, Tusculum and McMurray got BARRAGED today by jets guided 1,500 feet and lower by local flight controllers. The dangerous j ets were easily busting 72 to 75 decibels every one minute apart as the wind blew hard at times from the WEST. Below is a screen shot that just represents a few minutes from today. Why didn’t the BNA and FAA open Runway 13/31 (the pointing northwest and southeast) and bring these airplanes in with the wind under their wings, versus against the wind?

You could see some of the aircraft rocking as the “perpendicular” wind bloew against them.

Happy Thanksgiving to all and let us all hope as we approach the end of another year that eventually we get our communities back from the FAA, the BNA, and the Metro Airport Authority. Today was just another example of how wind direction has little to nothing to do with flight route management. It has a lot to do with making money while polluting the same homes over and over and over again with dangerous chemicals expelled in airplane exhaust and nonstop around-the-clock noise approaching concert level. You can’t go outside with this is going on, neither to enjoy your yard or to take a chance on getting sick.

This isn’t just cruel, it is a sin. Many homeowners in the destroyed neighborhoods have owned their homes for many decades. Air traffic was never an issue until the FAA, BNA, and the Metro Government went behind closed doors to create this terrible flight management based on a failed satellite guidance system that cost taxpayers (including those under attack by it) close to $40 Billion Dollars.

Doug Note: I tried yet again to get an attorney to help our community fight this airport. This one at least responded, but this is more difficult than I thought it would be as it appears most law firms, to date, don’t want to fight the BNA. I’ll keep trying. I know there is a firm with a “conflict of interest” and is willing to fight for what is right.

Blogging The FAA and BNA & And A Neighborhood Promise From Local Councilman That Isn’t Going to Happen

November 26, 2025:

The text below was posted on the Crieve Hall Nextdoor site as summer came to an end. As you can see, or tell from recent overhead noise and pollution on November 25, this isn’t going to happen.

We, the community, are the only ones who can win this this fight against the pollution and noise that has so decimated the serenity of a once wonderful community of Crieve Hall and many of areas of South Nashville. It is difficult to believe how this has happened and how we, as South Nashville residents, were duped.

It is not about the wind, Councilman Johnston. You need to quit relaying this FAA/BNA lie to constituents. You and others who even bother to reply.

From Nashville Councilman Courtney Johnston: “Aircraft noise update: This afternoon I, along with Senator Campbell and Reps Hemmer and Powell, met with the FAA. As has been discussed previously (Doug note: When, and how much?), the FAA updated and changed the departure headways to accommodate the growing volume in and out of BNA. Wind and weather determine which direction aircraft take off and land. If winds are from the south, the aircraft are coming our way – especially with the 250 headway (Doug note: The councilman didn’t know what this mean, I still don’t). I want to manage expectations by saying that the FAA has made it clear, this is not going to change. (Doug Note: Who elected the FAA to determine who they poison with exhaust and pre-dawn to post-midnight noise and exhaust chemicals. It isn’t our fault this airport decided to expand and then utilize exceptionally poor management that has now been proved a huge failure? In addition, it is the Metro Airport Authority, Metro government (such as councilmen), and executives of the Nashville airport who are MUCH at fault for this destruction of homes in “sacrificial zones”)

“These headway departure changes are final,” says Councilman Johnston. “THE GOOD NEWS – Currently aircraft take off and level off at 4000 feet. Beginning Thanksgiving Day, that will change and aircraft will continue to ascend to 7000 feet (Doug note: What does this mean? At some point these polluting and noise jets will ascend to 35,000 feet)

“They won’t quite be at 7000 feet but they should be higher than 4000 when they get above us here in Crieve Hall. (Doug Note: That makes no sense). I’ve asked for the average altitude we can expect over our area and will update you when I get that info so we can compare to the current 4000 level. This change may not be as noticeable in November since winds are usually from the north then (fall and winter) so they’ll be taking off toward the north predominantly anyway. But it should help in spring and summer when those winds shift to more from the south! More info to come!

(Doug note: When is that information coming, councilman?)

I asked Councilman Johnston to hold a community meeting on this unfair air flight issue 3 years ago. She declined. Maybe we couldn’t have changed anything, but we would have had a say and we could have made decisions on a course of action, or inaction–Doug M.

November 24, 2025 (wind from Southeast–airplanes guided over same homes despite FAA’s own policy):

At about 2 p.m. Nashville flight controllers figured out the wind was blowing from the South, rather than the north. So, after guiding hundreds of airplanes in the wrong direction—according to the FAA’s “all about the wind” logic, it started guiding gigantic jets in the correct direction, if you actually believe the wind has anything to do with how this airport operates.

Once again, as our homes get inundated with noise and pollution, these jets seem to find a way to skirt around the wealthiest communities in Nashville. After all, those parents and grandparents don’t want their kids to get sick and they are more important. The rest us, we just let it happen because we aren’t. Day after day and this situation of exhaust and noise is getting worse. Today, November 24, was just another day in the world of BNA and FAA fabrications and poor air traffic management by people who rely on a failed satellite guidance system in the most lazy of ways.

As much as I hate that the BNA and FAA are dumping their shit on Crieve Hall at our dinner hour, again, these planes should have been coming over our homes all day, rather than flying 1,000 to 1,500 feet above the same homes in McMurray and Tusculum. As always, this isn’t just cruel, it is a sin colored in avarice.

November 23, 2025: Ninth Sunday in a row that giant loud and polluting jets have dumped on South Nashville homes! The best day of the week has been destroyed, yet again (and I mean hundreds of times over just the last few years) by the Nashville International Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Metro Airport Authority– for no good reason other than THEIR OWN.

Yes, the wind has a north breeze to it, which is enough for that lazy FAA satellite system to direct jets 1,000 feet over our homes.

At 4:30 p.m. the north wind was struggling to blow 3 mph from a north direction and the FAA lazily directed another 700 jets over our homes, not theirs. I’m willing to bet on that. They lazy and failed satellite control was clobbering Tusculum and McMurray every 45 to 90 seconds, shaking our roofs and filing the air our homes with exhaust chemicals and noise so loud you cannot have a telephone conversation on your patio.

You cannot safely go outside with this going on this is 1,500 airplanes over Tusculum since yesterday. I try not to go outside when this is happening, but I have at times and then I find myself wheezing for the next two to three hours until I can bring it under control with an inhaler.

Watch this Thursday–Thanksgiving–and expect more of the same from the Nashville Airport. Reminder, this airport has four runways but has chosen to use two for arriving and departing flights. The FAA has allowed this airport to abuse the same residents now for some 6 to 7 years while the BNA has added flights nonstop and never offered to alter flight routes (easily done with that lazy satellite system the FAA uses) or to provide our homes with filter systems or good windows. They just make money and tell us to basically get screwed. Another Sunday, another destroyed and dangerous day brought to by the least neighborly airport in the South. They wouldn’t do this to their families and shouldn’t be doing it to ours.

November 21, 2025:

It took until about 10 or 11 a.m. before the Nashville Airport controllers noticed the wind direction was 180 degrees opposite of its stated air flight route directions. At least as we have been told by the FAA. The jets are are now pummeling a wide swath of South Nashville while the FAA guides hundreds of jets 40 to 60 to 80 miles over homes. Until the FAA makes changes that are fail to all Nashville residents, South Nashville will continue to suck down the dangers posed by millions of tons of exhaust.

November 20, 2025

Just as I always say, the FAA can’t wait to guide arriving airplanes low and loud over the same Tusculum and McMurray homes when the wind has a north shift–no matter how light. But, when the opposite happens, like this morning with the wind shifting to due south, the FAA, BNA and Metro Airport Authority keep those loud and polluting jets flying over the same homes. Why not the urgency to change routes like is so often done when the wind shifts north? Lots of elderly and Hispanic residents here. That got anything to do with? To see wind direction, don’t go to the Nashville Airport site, to windy.com on your cell phone. It is a free app and indicates the actual direction of the wind.

November 17, 2025: Of course the wind shifted this past Sunday a bit to the north (sort of north) so the FAA, BNA, and Metro Airport Authority guided 700 airplanes over the same homes all day. So sad that people who love their Sundays can’t go outside anymore for fear of choking on these damned planes. Now, today, the wind blew lightly from the north, a lot from the east, and now from the SOUTH–yet the FAA and the BNA and the Metro Airport Authority have not switched the routes of the gigantic pollution and noise spreading pests of passenger airplanes, including that ever increasing number of private polluting loud jets. I ask the Mayor of Nashville–and the Metro Airport Authority–are these people paying anything for abusing South Nashville homeowners with noise and pollution around the clock?

As always, this isn’t just cruel, it is a sin.

November 12, 2025:

As the children right below where I live enjoy their back yard, yet another of countless jets fly tremendous miles out of the way to fly over us with the wind from the west at a whopping 5 miles per hour. The noise has been terrible all day, but the noise doesn’t get into your children’s lungs. The FAA and BNA continue to follow a dangerous pattern that threatens our us, our children, and every living thing in the path of these pollution loud jets that the FAA and the BNA hid from us, and–of course–we got no help from the local government because it owns this horrible airport. I’m going to keep the post at the top of the page up for a while, as it says so much. This airport and local overworked flight controllers (they are not, of course) keep using abusive flight plans to the residents of South Nashville. Don’t you miss your quiet evenings? They are gone forevermore. In the photo below, this airplane only over our heads during our dinner hour, per usual, was heading to Canada. This jet probably flew at least 80 miles out of the way to come over our heads because we have a hurricane 5 mph southwest to west wind. You can see the dashes. The short red line shows how few homes this jet would have flown over had the FAA not worked with the BNA to change flight paths and claim, falsely, that air traffic is determined by the wind. It is determined by greed. If you can’t read my writing it says 80 miles over us, and I do mean loud and low right above Crieve Hall. What a stupid way to guide airplanes.

By the way, we are less than 2 weeks away from when Councilman Courtney Johnston told us these very same airplanes, the ones she never told us were coming, would be 7,000 feet above our homes versus the normal 3,000 to 4,000. In Tusculum and McMurray it is even worse and probably more deadly over time.

November 10, 2025: The wind today–it has an “N” in it, so naturally the FAA–that our politicians are feeling so sorry for with the government shutdown–directed another 700 airplanes over my friends and family. By now, that is at least 4,500 to 5,000 low flying jets over our homes in the last couple of weeks because overworked and overstressed FAA flight controllers have depended on what must be one of the ugliest aviation failures in American history:

Called Nextgen, it has created havoc for millions of landowners, but not so much that millions of others not affected by its pollution and noise are willing to help us shake off the grip that greedy airports and the lazy FAA has on us.

Here is one bogus descriptioin of what the FAA’s $40 Billion Nextgen is, or was supposed to be, as it again wrecks our homes with noise, exhaust pollution, and possibly structural damage to our homes:

….NextGen..uses time instead of distance to help controllers sequence air traffic, which makes better use of available capacity and enables delays needed for merging and spacing to be taken at more fuel-efficient altitudes….

Like the Elon Musk Tunnel, this happened with out chance for Nashville residents to defend themselves from low-flying dirty polluting aircraft that now includes countless private jets. These pests grow daily.

Areas like Tusuclum and McMurray are known across the country as sacrificial zones.

As always, this isn’t just cruel what has happened, it is a sin by all those participating in it. The local government that is supposedly responsible for protecting taxpaying residents is just as guilty as the greedy executives of the BNA, the FAA, and the Metro Airport Authority.

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November 9, 2025 (crosswind):

If it is a Sunday! That is right, for the 7th consecutive Sunday the Federal Aviation Administration and Nashville International Airport are flying jets, like the one above, right above the same homes. Today the Wind is from the WnW, or sometimes the NE. The point is that the wind is a crossing and running perpendicular the planes that MUST be guided so that the air below their wings gives these polluting nonstop Sunday ruining jets “LIFT”. If the wind had been from the opposite direction, the FAA would still be guiding jets over the same homes that includes Tusculum and McMurray. The wind is a myth, which is nice way of saying it is a lie as used by the FAA and BNA.

Meanwhile, one of the old airport concourses is being torn down for a newer larger concourse that will soon be sending even more giant polluting airplanes over the same homes. If reports are correct, this is an $885 million project. If the BNA spent a fraction of all that billions it is using expand that dirty airport making it right to the communities it has helped ruin, then I might have a tad a respect for it. But it has long demonstrated under its current leadership that it has an obsession with turning that airport into something Nashville doesn’t need so close to huge populations (yes, those populations have been huge a long time–Crieve Hall is 10 to 15 miles away from the airport and is constantly barraged).

Here is the definition of a “crosswind” from an AI search:

“The FAA considers a crosswind any wind that blows at an angle to the aircraft’s flight path or a runway’s centerline. It’s the component of the wind that acts at a right angle to the runway, requiring pilots to make adjustments to maintain control during takeoff and landing, as it pushes the aircraft sideways.”

So why, FAA and BNA, are we told the wind matters when it obviously doesn’t as nearly 700 airplanes will be directed today with the wind blowing against the airplanes?

The FAA should have made the BNA use Runway 13/31 as more than a tarmac to taxi aircraft. I sent the FAA a Freedom of Information request now almost two years ago asking about the past use of Runway 13/31. Someone stopped me from getting information, of course ignoring the law since that information would have in no way threatened anyone with any danger.

Let me answer for you, because it is easier to abuse the same narrow path of homes than to do what you say, and because it is the best way to make a lot of money at the expense of the same homeowners. You have no scruples, neither one of you.

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November 7, 2025: Well, at least the FAA and the BNA are flying their polluting jets in the direction –a very silly one based on a flawed plan and a scrapped system–that they say the wind dictates. However, these airplanes are flying deep in Crieve Hall—one of them at 6 p.m that pierced 80 decibels, rocking our homes–and destroying our serenity as we welcome our children and grandchildren home for the day. As most of us get ready for dinner.

The number 1 question I seem to get if I post how poorly South Nashville has been treated by the FAA and BNA is “how long have I owned my house? The question is always intended to let me know if I don’t like the airplane noise (and pollution) I shouldn’t have moved close to an airport.

Normally the person asking this redundant question has done NO research on why and how this airport and the FAA decided to destroy our homes w while they live in quiet neighborhoods. I usually ignore trolls, but for those who might actually want to learn something, or to see how detrimental hundreds of thousands of giant polluting aircraft over your homes–or even homes miles from poorly managed route paths–read down this page. Then, do more research and learn how cities and communities across America have been ignored by the FAA and local airports for more than decade. This current shutdown of our government is far removed from how often our Congressmen have placed us behind their needs.

Unless you live right beside an airport–and you made that decision to live there knowing full well the consequences of your actions (I can’t imagine someone would allow their children to live under airport traffic)–you do not deserve what has happened to you, your family, your friends, your yards, your pets, or the wildlife and forested tracts around you if you are (or were) so fortunate.

The FAA should not have allowed this airport to do what it has done, just like the Metro Council has shrugged their shoulders at Elon Musk digging a huge tunnel underneath our highways and businesses to benefit a few wealthy people. Notice how Doug Kreulen, the CEO of the Nashville Airport, always tends to show up in photos about things so many of us oppose. Why is that? Why is he in the photo with Governor Lee bragging about the Elon Musk Tunnel Nashville opposed?

When did my family purchases homes in South Nashville: 1959, 1973, and 1991. When we bought them (different members of my family) we had no idea we would be considered in the path of endless air traffic at extremely low altitudes, that the airport would become such a treacherous neighbor, that thousands of homeowners–just in a narrow path of South Nashville–would be punished this greedy airport and arrogant federal agency that is in dire need of reorganization. The Federal Aviation Administration needs new management and fresh minded and fair air controllers.

Don’t let Internet trolls discourage you from fighting for your homes and health, or anyone else accusing you of whining. If it is your community, whine away and screw these people.

Understand, that stuff these airplanes are spewing go where there wind directs–10 and 15 miles away. Chemicals are tiny terrorists.

If you are asked when you bought your home, tell them long before the Nashville Airport quit being a good neighbor and the FAA purchased a satellite guidance system that has failed miserably on a national level and is being scrapped for another soon to fail satellite guidance system that will cost us billions of dollars while poisoning with unknown tons of exhaust, incredible noise around the clock, and a disrespect none of us deserve.

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November 6, 2025:

Wind again from the Southeast–proving now for the third time in the last week or so–that wind direction does not matter how nearly 700 airplanes arrive to the Nashville International Airport (BNA). The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is guiding both commercial jets and and an ever increasing number of private jets and taxis over Tusculum and McMurray. The same homes are taking the punishment minute after minute, day after day, week after week, month after month. The private jets are becoming another issue over our homes, as they have in other cities and communities across our nation. Homeowners are sick of these planes now tossed in with the regular horrible air traffic. More crashes ahead, FAA? More pollution and noise for those you have ignored while allowing too many airports to enrich themselves at our expense?

Lately most have been guided in the opposite direction that the FAA told America its Nextgen Satellite Guidance system required. A lie, of course. And the BNA keeps throwing up more airplanes. I would not be surprised at all if the smaller jets–spewing dirty exhaust just like the larger jets–will be used by the FAA to claim the air traffic over Tusculum and McMurray isn’t as loud as I (and others) claim when it does its averaging to determine noise impact areas. Right now Tusculum and McMurray are outside those zones. Both should be inside them. Both should have been in these noisy and pollution filled zones long ago.

I document every one of these lies repeated over our heads by the hundred whenever the FAA directs aircraft over the same tax paying citizens and homeowners. I hope to continue to do so until we get our country back from greedy and arrogant people.

Photo above: One of 660 jets arriving over the same homes at low and loud and polluting altitudes 100,000 or so times a year.

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Blogging the FAA and BAA: The EXTREMELY Loud and Polluting Jets Over Crieve Hall Tonight

November 5, 2025: I’m not monitoring every jet directed over our homes in Crieve Hall tonight, but noting a few that are almost concert level in noise. And, I want to remind everyone we were told not very long ago by Councilman Courtney Johnston that these very airplanes would be 7,000 feet above our homes (nothing really to brag about) versus the actual 3,000 feet or so they are right now by Thanksgiving. Again and Again and Again–these flights are not necessary over the same homes, if really necessary at all. And they won’t be 7,000 feet above Crieve Hall anytime soon.

This is the FAA making life easier on them, and the BNA and Metro Airport Authority making as much money as possible at our expense. 65 decibels is very loud–most homeowners resent anything flying low over their homes making this much noise all day and night (plus the pollution), but at 3:36 p.m. a Boeing made Delta shook our roofs a 79.5 DBS—just shy of 80 decibels, which is just shy of concert level noise. Then, at 4:33 we had a Southwest fly over Crieve Hall (well south of the airport) headed to ONTARIO that shook our dinner plates at 79.1 DBS or 14.1 DBS above the FAA’s 65 Decibel threshold. I’m pretty sure both these jets managed to skirt around Belle Mead.

Also, these were the loudest so far, but all have surpassed 70 DBS. You can let this continue to happen over your families, or fight it and get it stopped. I believe Tusculum, McMurray and Crieve Hall have a winnable lawsuit agains the local airport. But you got to fight now, or pay the doctor bills later (or move).

UNDERSTAND, THE FAA, BNA AND METRO AIRPORT AUTHORITY INTEND TO DIRECT GIANT AND DANGEROUS JETS OVER CRIEVE HALL, TUSUCLUM, MCMURRAY AND SURROUNDING AREAS FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIVES AFTER HAVING MADE DECISIONS BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. WE HAD A WONDERFUL PLACE TO LIVE ONCE–ALL OF THESE PLACES–UNTIL WE LET GREED TAKE OVER OUR HOMES.

The wind today: A breeze from the south, but currently from the west. So, the FAA is directing airplanes into the airport with the wind blowing against the jets, versus under them as we have been told by the FAA and our council reresentatives is imperative. The FAA says one thing, and does another. We also don’t need the fear of more jet crashes over our homes. The noise and pollution is enough.

This will soon change, and the lazy FAA satellite system will direct thousands of more airplanes 1,000 feet above homeowners in Tusculum and McMurray. We will get a break in Crieve Hall, briefly, but those planes will be back hundreds of tho thousands of times and increasing in numbers over your families and your once beautiful solitude. Does it matter, really, which way the wind blows as we have been told. Hell no.

However, they won’t be flying 7,000 feet above Crieve Hall on departing flights by Thanksgiving. Never believe anything the FAA or BNA tells you, especially if passed on to our representatives to pass on to us.

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Blogging the FAA and BNA: Help Me Sue Them Before They Kill Us! These “People” Think It is OK To Fly Millions Of Giant Polluting Jets Over Our Homes Forevermore Without Compensation. They Are Arrogant And Give Us No Respect

South Nashville, if you fight against the people responsible for destroying our neighborhoods with never-ending flights based on lies and behind-closed-door meetings, I think WE can win. I need help fighting this airport and its executives and board members who I strongly believe had made decision to our detriment and that have also been discriminatory. Read below and keep reading. The in formation directly below is from an AI overview. What is happening yet again today will never cease to happen until we stop these very rude and arrogant “humans”, and I do mean ARROGANT, people tho don’t give a shit about you:

November 3, 2025:

• Lawsuits over flight paths: Municipalities like the City of Phoenix successfully sued the FAA over changes in flight paths implemented under the NextGen program (Doug note: the guidance system the FAA uses to direct tens of thousands of aircraft over our homes every month regardless of wind direction on many days)
• The court ordered the flight paths to be restored, demonstrating that the FAA can be held accountable for failing to adequately consider community noise impacts during procedural changes. Los Angeles residents and cities like Culver City have also filed lawsuits, arguing the FAA failed to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) when implementing new flight routes.
• Doug Note: It is the BNA and the Metro Airport Authority we need to go after first. These executives created a mess with New Horizon, a plan to reshape airport management at our expense and they NEVER told us it was coming. This seems to be the management style of the airport’s CEO–if you don’t believe that, notice the photos he appears in pertaining the future Music City Loop boondoggle.
• Property “Takings” claims: The U.S. Supreme Court case, United States v. Causby (1946), established a key precedent: frequent, low flights over private land can be considered a “taking” of property, requiring compensation under the Fifth Amendment. This principle allows residents to seek compensation for significant loss of property use and enjoyment due to airport operations.
• Nuisance and Trespass lawsuits (against airports): While the FAA is generally protected from state law claims, airport operators (local entities) can be sued in state court for nuisance and trespass. These cases argue that the noise and pollution interfere with residents’ right to use and enjoy their property. 

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Sunday, November 2, 2025:

Another Sunday, another 700 airplanes destroying the best day of the week with low and exhausting and choking fumes over Tusculum and McMurray. This has gone on for so long that the airport needs to compensate destroyed communities by millions of dollars. How do you pay for the time lost for those who once loved their now polluted yards?

The wind direction today was about as much from the east as the north, but that tiny north wind is all the the Nashville Airport and its lazy FAA satellite guidance system– and those so overworked FAA controllers– needed to dump on the same families time and again with airplanes busting the 75 decibel level (65 and above is dangerous to human health, according to the FAA). I often wonder if these these people, robbing from us, think their work is funny or place a value on our lives. The guts from this federal agency are gone and the FAA flight controllers don’t seem near as necessary to me as they did before they became obsolete.

The the air in South Nashville is full of future asthma, thanks to the FAA, the executives of the Nashville International Airport, and the members of the Metro Airport Authority, the governing body of this discriminating airport.

November 2 marked the the FOURTH consecutive Sunday that the FAA found a reason to destroy the serenity of the best day of the week above the same homes. Please keep reading this blog and make sure, if you live in this FAA targeted area, to investigate your homes for structural damage as these low-flying airplanes shake and rattle your home’s foundation every 30 to 90 seconds. This will only get worse as this greedy airport adds to its daily flights and news channels 2, 4, and 5 give this destruction sparse attention.

I will repeat many times going forward, as I have in now many past blogs, this airport is destroying selected homes for its benefit.

Where do members of BNA, FAA, and Metro Airport Authority live? Do all of they even live in Nashville, and if so, do all they live in or near Belle Meade where the never-ending airplanes seem to go around despite wind direction?

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Blogging The FAA & Nashville Airport (BNA): Maybe It Is A Coincidence, Or Maybe We Are Seeing The Damage From Hundreds Of Thousands Of Jets Guided Over Our Homes By Greed

October 30, 2025 (another day filled with airplanes and lies): 650 plus airplanes arriving again today above homes in Tusculum and McMurray, way above the FAA’s 65 decibel safety threshold. Why does the FAA continue to ignore its own danger signs and also let the Nashville Airport get away with destroying the same homes while only using half of its runways?

Between 1:03 and 1:19 p.m. 8 giant passenger jets busted over our homes. The FAA and Airport and Metro Airport Authority continue to neglect their duties to alter flight routes, or compensate residents.

In 16 minutes the FAA Guided these airplane over the same homes at very low altitudes for no good reason other than it is easy for them to do and they don’t care about our lives. On the other hand, The BNA and Airport Authority are simply making tons of money at our expense. Here were the noise levels as recorded by my sound level meter:

I started recording at 1:03 p.m.: A Southwest at 74 DBS +9 DBS above FAA danger threshold ; Southwest 73.3 DBS or +8.3 above 65; Air Canada Express 73.6 DBS or +8.6 above FAA threshold; Southwest 76.3 DBS or +11 DBS above FAA threshold; Southwest 74.2 DBS or +9.2 above FAA danger threshold; Southwest 73.5 DBS or +8.5 above threshold; American Airlines 73.2 DBS or +8.2 above threshold; Southwest 74 DBS or +9 above threshold (1:19 p.m)

Average DBS during this 16 minute span with hundreds of airplanes that had already flow 1300 feet or less above our homes, with hundreds of more to come (wind WnW–a crosswind that should have dictated these airplanes used Runway 13/31 instead of 20L:

74 DBS or +9.0 DECIBELS rocking our South Nashville homes supposedly outside the FAA’s Noise Impact Area. If not designated as in this zone, as we should be, we will never be compensated for the destruction brought on our lives daily.

Blogging The FAA and BNA: Despite Wind Blowing 20 MPH From West, FAA Directs Gigantic Polluting Airplanes Over South Nashville, Yet Again Ignoring Its Own Wind Policy

October 19, 2025:

Shocker alert! Today is a Sunday and the FAA has figured out again that because the wind is blowing it can direct hundreds of aircraft (1 minute apart) over the same homes. Problem is, these aircraft were flying to the wrong runway—that is if you have EVER believed anything the FAA or the BNA tells you. These airplanes have once again dumped pollution and endless excessively loud noise on the same homes. This was the second day this week that the FAA has ignored its own policy that says flight routes are determined by wind direction. There were two coincidental exceptions today, however, around 10:30— two giant planes flew over Crieve Hall–departing aircraft that should not have been anywhere close to this community. What was that about, FAA?

To my friends and neighbors in Tusculum and McMurray, you have plenty of evidence to approach the airport and the FAA and demand that your homes be sound proofed and exhaust proofed from the misdeeds of this airport and the local flight controllers. You should be placed in the FAA’s Noise Impact Area and receive compensation of some sort for your safety against noise and pollution. Once again, who is the FAA protecting from flights on our Sundays, and why does it decide one day the wind matters and the next day it doesn’t.

Blogging The FAA and The BNA: The results of air noise from 10 giant polluting passenger jets on yet another Sunday in South Nashville—Average Decibel Level 72.11 (Why Hasn’t Tusculum Been Placed In The FAA’s “Noise Impact Area”? )

Readers, understand, 65 decibels is considered at the top of the level where the Federal Aviation Administration admits is beginning to become detrimental to homeowners. The airplanes now directed over Tusculum and McMurray–despite the wind direction–are far exceeding 65 decibels. I used a Toptes sound level meter to monitor the volume of these airplanes. The Nashville Airport owes these communities a lot of compensation for their deliberate and continued actions:

Beginning at 11:24 and lasting for about 10 minutes as Federal Aviation Administration with knowledge of Nashville Airport and the airport’s board members blatantly and cruelly directs airplanes over the same homes for days and even weeks at a time, with no thought or compensation for lost homeowner values and health of our families.

Southwest Airlines:, 78.2 dBs (+13.2 above 65); Southwest 74.4 dBs (+9.1 above 65 decibels); United Airlines 71.1 dBs (6.1 above 65 decibels); Boeing 79.9 dBs (14.9 dBs above 65); Southwest 76.3 dBs (13.3 decibels above 65); Southwest 73.1 dBs (8.1 decibels above 65); Southwest 77.7 dBs (12.7 decibels above 65); Allegiant 74.9 dBs (9.8 decibels above 65); Southwest 75.1 dBs (10.1 decibels above 65); Southwest 79.9 dBs (14.9 decibels above 65)–11.22 Decibels above 65 decibels on average, or 76.22—and this will get louder tonight, especially after the FAA accesses an additional 10 points to the night time decibel level. It accesses itself a penalty, but that is about all it does it as far as I can determine.

This continued for hours and was continuing as I finished this blog. My sister, who lives in this area, said you was woke up numerous times through the night as the FAA continued to dump its noise and pollution on a targeted section of South Nashville——-REGARDLESS OF WIND DIRECTION.

Please keep reading. Read about the failed $40 Billion Satellite System now being scrapped after the FAA tremendous failures. Will the next satellite system be weaponized against the same people? If you live under these airplanes, you know they represent premeditated assault on homeowners. If you don’t know that, keep reading and see what these airplanes do to our bodies and lives.

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Blogging The FAA and BNA: Horrible NextGen Satellite System Being Shut Down, But The FAA Boondoggle Again With Another Guidance System That Targets Chosen Losers?

October 18, 2025:

(Update: 3 p.m.–wind solid still from the south, but the FAA continues to route giant loud and polluting airplanes 100 percent against its own stated flight route policy it shares with our politicians, who then pass this information on as a fact, when in fact, they are passing on lies. Wind direction DOES NOT MATTER). Despite the wind shifting from the NE to the South, the lazy flight control team at the BNA decided-for the 7th consecutive day–to continue directing commercial jets (registering way above 70 dBs) over South Nashville at very low altitudes around the clock nonstop and over the same jet-shocked homes and the prisoners inside them. This is the second time in the last month local FAA controllers have has done this? Why? This will make more than 4,500 giant polluting, loud airplanes flying directly above the roofs of thousands of homes since the Nashville Airport began showing a light north wind week ago. I’ve said it before, FAA, if you can’t read your fancy instruments, look at the flags or wind socks outside the control tower. Are the flight control teams even showing up for work with the government shut down? This Friday, October 17, the FAA once again demonstrated how easily it lies us in Nashville, but the BNA and its airport authority are accessories in this mismanagement of our skies. Many people affected today, all week long, and ever increasingly for several years now are hispanic or elderly. The FAA, BNA, and Metro Airport Authority didn’t all the sudden start flying 600 to 700 commercial jets over us. This has been a well thought out plan not shared with the South Nashville community. This marks yet another pitiful, shameful display by the Federal Aviation Administration.

The screen shot below is from Windy App. It tells you the truth about wind direction. Our country is full of southern winds today, and that includes the Nashville International Airport. Surprisingly, from WSMV Channel 4 in Nashville: https://www.wsmv.com/2025/10/15/like-time-bomb-internal-memo-former-controller-raise-alarms-about-bna-air-traffic-control-staffing/——–You should watch/read this from Channel 4 in Nashville. I was surprised that Channel 4 aired. Good to see some journalism like this. I do with the station would have discussed the lazy satellite system used to abuse selected communities. Overall, the story does not instill confidence in the FAA or the Nashville Airport.

This news report continues to show us that our health versus the wealth of the disconnected rich.

The Nashville mayor needs to staff the airport authority with responsible people, the FAA needs to dump satellite and return to radar-only services with a full staff of energetic and bright young men and women with drive and common sense. I remember respecting this group so very much, as heartfelt as any profession.

From AI search:

The FAA’s two-decade-long Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) is

ending in 2025 following widespread failures, cost overruns, and missed deadlines. A 2025 report from the Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that despite an estimated $36 billion investment, the program only delivered 16% of its expected benefits. 

(Doug Note, per usual abused homeowners are not mentioned here, but millions of people have turned against this guidance system as their homes and families have been placed in very narrow “sacrificial zones”. The reason so many people don’t about this especial form of abuse (and I think discrimination in some cases) is because the FAA does not fly giant passenger and cargo jets 1000 feet above their homes 700 times a day).

Why NextGen is ending (Doug Note: In a nutshell, it was a disaster, and not just for the state reasons below):

The FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 (by by OUR Congress with much lobbying through the years) mandated the closure of the NextGen office by the end of 2025, which effectively terminates the program in its original form.

A new entity, the Airspace Modernization Office, is taking over future air traffic modernization efforts. The decision followed decades of oversight reports that repeatedly flagged the program’s failures, which included: 

• Budget and schedule problems: Many major NextGen components were over budget and delayed for years. For example, the NAS Voice System project was canceled after $160 million was spent, forcing the FAA to pay an extra $274 million to extend outdated equipment.
• Overly optimistic planning: Auditors found a pattern of unrealistic planning, underestimated costs, and over-projected benefits that did not materialize.
• Underwhelming results: The goal of transforming the air traffic control system from ground-based radar to satellite-based tracking largely failed. As of late 2024, only a fraction of the promised benefits, such as reduced delays and increased capacity, had been realized.
• Vulnerability to external factors: The program was hurt by inconsistent airline adoption of new avionics, supply chain issues, and global events like the COVID-19 pandemic (I call some of this good ole KARMA–Doug)
• Growing GPS vulnerability: The increasing number of GPS jamming and spoofing incidents, particularly in Europe and the Middle East, exposed the risk of relying too heavily on satellite navigation without robust ground-based backup systems. 
• Added by Doug M: Millions of the chosen losers in the flight route decisions hated it as it destroyed the dignity of owning a home and the pleasures of being outside. Thousands of homeowners filed lawsuits, many of which were questionably dismissed by judges on grounds I found to be weak–no legal standing, for instance. I expect none of the judges lived in a “sacrificial zone”. More than likely they would have been residing in “no fly” areas that protect “important people and their families“.

What happens next, according to AI:

The FAA is planning a new $31.5 billion system to replace core automation, communication, and surveillance networks. In the meantime, the FAA will continue to manage a complex “hybrid” system of old and partially deployed NextGen components. The OIG emphasizes the need for the FAA to apply lessons learned from NextGen, such as better risk management and oversight, to future modernization efforts. 

Doug Note: Again, nothing about homeowners who we’re never given a chance to defend themselves from the poisons and the noise of commercial jets and now the never ending addition of air taxis and private rich people jets. Also, those of us placed in “sacrificial zones” could have, and have been, telling anyone who might find our blogs or websites that Nextgen was a huge failure, the FAA was an accessory to this boondoggle as it continued to lie about this system’s efficiencies and the flight controllers refused to common courtesy or common sense to direct air traffic over homes. I hope Americans continue to fight this agency and I hope one day I find an earnest attorney who likes challenges.

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Blogging The FAA and BNA: Documenting The Incredible Indifference To Residents Of South Nashville:

October 16, 17, 2025: This is how Day 6 and Day 7 in the row began in Tusculum, McMurray, and much of Williamson County at 4:40 a.m. The very loud Boeing jet above was passing over our homes in South Nashville–1,200 or so feet above our bedroom windows–and loud polluting jets will continue passing over until well after midnight, before it all starts again. Today will mark more than 4,000 low altitude airplanes over the same homes, compliments of the BNA, Metro Airport Authority and the Federal Aviation Adminimstration.

Meanwhile the terrible satellite system that the FAA continues to use at the Nashville airport is being pummeled in the media about how it has failed. Part of that failure is how the agencies and executives noted above have helped destroy the serenity of homeowners without any notice nor apology nor compensation for this dangerous and possibly even deadly form of air traffic management. However, that doesn’t seemed to be mentioned in many of the articles that are disclosing that only 16 percent of stated goals for this VERY expensive technology has been met. Toss in the lives of humans on the ground, and you can put that number at 0. One of notable FAA fabrications was that Nextgen would lead to airlines carrying passengers on more “direct” destination routes. In Nashville, the FAA frequently guides jets 60 to 80 miles past the Nashville airport. One of the other notable fabrications is that the FAA is saving millions of dollars in gasoline expenses. It has some scientific explanation about glide paths versus the more traditional approach to a runway, but I don’t believe. I don’t believe you can fly 60 or 80 or maybe 100 miles past an airport and save much of anything.

Unfortunately, the FAA, with tax payer dollars from us from us, will try another satellite system. Will it be used fairly or will it just make matters worse for those homeowners already suffering minute by minute from the mismanagement of the most arrogant federal agency in America.

Where is our Congress on this matter? They know what is going on. Either represent us, Congressmen, or please get out of the way so that someone can.

October 15, 2025: Day five, 120 consecutive hours of nonstop low altitude flights over Tusculum and surrounding areas. Right over our bedroom windows minute after minute. I can’t tell that the government has shutdown as far as it concerns the FAA or BNA. They fly the same lousy and dangerous routes everyday over the same residents with or without an operating government. Other parts of the country call areas such as Tusculum and McMurray “sacrificial zones.”

In the past I referred to to South Davidson County as the FAA’s and BNA’s “sacrificial lambs”, but I like “sacrificial zones” much better. Ironically, It doesn’t sound so religious, though what is taking place is a greedy sin against local homeowners. Where do you live, Doug Kruelen?

October 14: More of the same today, except it makes four consecutive days or 96 hours nonstop of 75 decibel level jets over our homes in South Nashville. I traveled a half mile away from my usual monitoring area and documented one jet. It was 70 decibels. I didn’t record more because I need to ask permission to record the annoyance and danger levels from homeowners I don’t know.

Today would have historically been one of the days I could have set outside with my elderly mom and enjoyed the weather and the day talking to her, but that is not possible anymore. The Nashville Airport and the FAA have taken that away from us and anyone else who understands the dangers of these excessively loud nonstop overhead jets and unknown amounts of tiny chemicals filling the air. The FAA is also allowing numerous private air taxis and private jets to travel over our homes, which also dump pollution on us. Though these planes aren’t as loud as the larger commerical passenger and cargo jets, very few register below 65 dBs on a sound meter–a level of annoyance that the FAA admits is disturbing and wrong.

I have thought about the “10 point penalty” the FAA supposedly accesses for night flights when determining which communities are placed inside noise impact areas. If applied to Tusculum, TN, where my family and friends live, it would mean the average decibel level of commercial jets would be about 85 dBS. That is almost like a concert over your bedroom window all night long, accompanied by poison.

The FAA is a failed federal agency. The BNA in Nashville needs new leadership and the FAA needs reorganization-you will see agreement with this across the country from homeowners who understand abuse.

Many articles and videos are being posted in October to discuss the failures of the Nextgen guidance system and its brutal treatment of homeowners along with political corruption. How many of our politicians live under “no fly” zones that Congressmen and others created to protect them , their families, and their buddies from irresponsible airports?

Will America ever elect people who actually work for them, from the local level to the federal level? We do so much bad to ourselves by sitting on our hands. Crieve Hall and Tusculum and McMurray and Harding Place and Haywood Lane–vote for people who will work for YOU. Not for no fly zones.

Why South Nashville Residentes Could Beat The BNA & Maybe Even The FAA In Court

Issues:

*The FAA has refused to answer my FOIA request about about historic runway use by the Nashville Airport. I want the answers to this simple FOIA, but have been ignored;

*Tusculum should be among other surrounding areas that is placed inside the FAA’s noise impact area since decibel levels from low altitude commercial jets commonly register way above the decibel level considered safe day and night—and I mean all day and night.

*The communities affected by belligerent air traffic and unknown quantities of drifting poisons from exhaust were not given notice about the impending and long-planned changes for altered flight routes;

*The communities disrupted daily by the nonstop traffic over their homes were not provided the minutes upon multiple requests from the meetings where decisions were made to alter historic flight routes;

*Neither the BNA nor the FAA nor the Metro Airport Authority conducted envioronmental impact studies in areas greatly degraded by overhead flights from tens of thousands of commercial jets each month. Unfortunately, our Congress told the FAA it didn’t need to worry about the noise and pollution dumped on us by Nextgen. Think about that one. Many of these legislators live in no fly zones, but told the FAA to not worry about making millioins of us miserable;

We know Nextgen has been a huge failure. It is time for a court or Congress to readdress a terrible decision to allow the FAA to poison our families with its lazy flight management;

*Nashville Airport executives, flight controllers, and the Metro Airport Authority were well aware of the impact of route changes to homeowners and chose to keep selected routes a secret, even to the point of misleading homeowners when, and if, i t responded to communications.

October 13, 2025: The average dBs during the last three days of monitoring approximately 20 minutes of daytime overhead commercial flights in Tusculum has been more than 73 dBs–that is generally 8 to 12 commercial jets each time. They don’t get any quieter at any of the various times; I have monitored them, and the noise between one jet followed by the next is maybe a minute. These jets (and the Nashville Airport) have become an nuisance in South Nashville and in Williamson County, too. I’m sure many residents who live near Donelson probably feel the same way as they also have been treated unfairly.

As 700 more airplanes are directed again today by the local FAA and BNA over South Nashville homes, I have continued to document how loud they are as the pass over Fairlane Drive, the busiest side street in the area of Tusculum.

With a small instrument used to measure decibel levels, known as a sound level meter, you can easily monitor how loud airplanes are. In a recent posting (I have since removed screen shot), a United Airlines passenger jet in this case busted lover over our home at 76 decibels, well into a noise level that the FAA refers to as severe. This doesn’t take into consideration the exhaust from these low flying jets or the constant concerns that one of these airplanes might plow into our homes. The Nashville Airport does not have the best record for near misses.

From 12:20 yo 12:43 p.m. the average decibel level was between 73 and 74 dBs. A Boeing rocked the neighborhood the loudest during this 23 minute span at 77 decibels.. Some 2,000 airplanes have made this racket over the same over the same homes for three consecutive days and will continue through the week. Much of South Nashville–including all of Tusculum–should be in the FAA’s “noise impact area,” and made eligible for compensation from the nonstop disturbance that occurs every day of the year in Tusculum.

Here is what the FAA says about airplanes that fly routinely over our homes so low and so loud, according to an AI search:

“The FAA defines a noise impact area primarily by a Day-Night Average Sound Level (DNL) of 65 dBA or higher, which is considered the threshold for significant noise exposure for residential areas. Areas are considered noise-sensitive, if noise interferes with normal activities, such as residential zones, schools, and parks. A proposed airport project may be deemed to have a significant noise impact if it causes an increase of at least 1.5 dBA at or above the DNL 65 dBA level.” How about 11.22 DBS above 65. What does that get us–along with the exhaust pollution?

I have not measured the night noise, but will soon. I have not measured noise once the foliage has fallen, but will soon. The noise will get worse as the BNA and FAA continues to demonstrate an indifference toward our lives and health. Tusculum and much of McMurray needs to be placed appropriately in a noise impact area and compensated appropriately for the danger BNA executives and flight controllers have delivered to us without apology or warning.

You can be assured that the level of noise has DEVASTATED the pleasure of enjoying your yard, your deck, your patio, your neighbors, or your family weekend gatherings

I read today where there are 3 vacancies on the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority. The mayor appoints new members. He needs to replace the vacant seats with men and women who will work to change how the FAA and the BNA determine flight route. Until it does, I plan to document how selected sections of our city are being destroyed while the BNA, the airport authority, and the FAA as all shirk their responsibilities to homeowners and their children.

They know they are doing this and that it is dangerous.

Just to remind everyone, these neighborhoods were built long before there was a Nextgen satellite guidance system and many residents have lived in their now bombarded homes for decades. We are not closer to the airport, but rather the airport has gotten closer to us with its expansion and flight route changes that are lazy and callous.

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October 12, 2025: The 10 jets that came over the Fairlane Drive in Tusculum Octoberr 12 averaged 73 Decibels. Three of the Southwest jets were 76 Decibels. This noise is well above what the FAA considers safe, yet they still come. In fact, it is in the “severe” category. These were 10 commercial passenger jets from 11:48 until 12:02. Hundreds had already passed over this area since 4 a.m. at very low altitudes and hundreds of more were yet to come. They are passing over now and will be until after midnight before they start again 4 a.m.—which they did–read the blog above.

Update On Lawsuit Against The FAA That Has Stolen The Homes From New York Residents And Refuses To Respond To Town Leaders

…The lawsuit filed by the towns of Hempstead and North Hempstead (in Nassau County, NY) against the FAA…is actively moving forward in the court system. The case, filed in February 2025, is a federal lawsuit asking the court to force the FAA to be more equitable in distributing air traffic, reduce noise, and conduct an environmental review of flight paths. The FAA has not yet responded in court, and the towns are continuing to pursue the case as a last resort after years of ignored petitions and complaints. 

The FAA is the most arrogant agency in America. If you don’t live under their sky management, you just don’t know how arrogant the FAA is.

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Blogging The FAA and BNA: Understanding What The FAA Does To Protect Airports From Having to Compensate Homeowners For Loss of Solitude And Health

October 11, 2025: 700 more Jets over the same homes today in Tusculum and McMurray–busting 75 decibels every minute or so, but as I learn more about the FAA’s management, it considers all days when averaging the noise levels which has a GREAT deal to do with whether you get compensated for the destruction it has helped bring upon your home and family. Of course, jets arrive from a destination and depart to a destination. The jets arriving over our communities are busting 75 decibels. This is VERY loud and now is happening about 100,000 times a year over the same homes as the airport expands its greedy operations at our expense.

The departing jets over Tusculum are not as loud, although they are still very noisy and the noise lingers. I will document this disrespect for us very soon. However, because these 100,000 giant aircraft are departing versus arriving, they are not overall as loud.

What happens is that the FAA averages the departing and the arriving planes to determine which communities are in “noise impact areas.” Tusculum is not, nor is McMurray.

Despite rattling the homes of selected losers in the FAA’s poor system of air traffic management, this form of make believe allows the FAA and BNA to get away with NOT having to compensate homeowners, many of them residents of their homes for decades. Because homeowners are allegedly outside the FAA’s designated “noise impact areas” they get no compensation or mitigation for what has been done to them. If this isn’t a crime, it should be.

Unfortunately, so far, too many courts across the nation have allowed the FAA to get away with its mismanagement of our skies. We all know by now that politics isn’t about the citizens so much anymore so much as it is about a few people. In this case, it is the FAA and the airlines management of skies and how much the airlines are filling them with jets and jet fuel and noise. Both of which have a huge presence with our U.S. Congress.

Today (October 11), another 700 or so airplanes busted the sky less than 1,500 feet above thousands of homes and dumped no telling how much pollution on them after flying thousands of miles (in total) past the airport before doing its famous 180 degree turn back to the Nashville airport (where likely I-40 was backed up).

The FAA has a theory that by flying thousands of miles (cumulative) past the airport and back into winds that are usually under 8 miles per hour is saving saving tens of thousands of gallons of gasoline, and therefore saving our planet. I expect there are scientific numbers to back this up, but where is the science on what using the same routes have done to homeowners chosen as the losers in the FAA and BNA’s malfeasance–as I see it. Those airplanes are dumping on us, even if they are–maybe–saving on gasoline expenses.

Expect 7,000 low-flying dirty airplanes over the same McMurray and Tusculum homes in the next 10 days. That is correct–7,000 airplanes LOW
AND LOUD over our homes, not the homes where FAA or BNA executives live, as the wind (The FAA’s big phony excuse) will blow gently from the north (actually it will blow from the west and east, too, per usual in Middle Tennessee).

October 9, 2025: Just a brief blog today to let the BNA know that I recorded the noise today of 7 jets duiring a 15 minute period or so. There were more that came over the Tusculum and McMurray area during this period, but I could not get them all because I actually have to take care of issues like my mom and her critters. Those airplanes on average–flying at a level of 1,100 feet above the homes in her neighborhood–once again busted the 75 decibel level, considered severely loud by the very federal agency–the FAA–routing these airplanes over the same homes, while allowing the Nashville Airport to use only two of four runways for departures and arrivals. Soon, I will measure this noise at night as the FAA should know by now, and I expect it and the BNA does, that the city’s “noise impact area” should be greatly widened and the homeowners under the attack of the FAA and the BNA should be compensated in some manner by the FAA or BNA. Instead, so far, the BNA just brags about the $4.5 Billion it is getting to expand its airport closer to our homes while it increases the amount of air traffic it now brings into and sends out of our city. You can’t keep doing that BNA, FAA. At some point you have to pay for your damages and threats to our health and safety.

Today marks close to 1,400 nonstop giant commercial aircraft over the same South Nashville homes in 48 hours, with more to come tomorrow and thousands in the next few weeks. The photo and screen shot above look just like today’s traffic. Yesterday–76 dBS during one measurement, today 75 dBs during another. If you don’t live under these airplanes–and more important never did until the FAA decided to manage our skies with a lazy satellite system–you couldn’t possibly understand how demeaning and dangerous the FAA and BNA have made South Nashville. And for no good reason, other than greed and ease.

Blogging The FAA and BNA: FAA Now Appears To Adding A Little Bitter To Its Dangerous Management Above Our Skies In Davidson And Williamson Counties

October 8, 2025: Hey Crieve Hall, quiet today, isn’t it? At least as it pertains to dangerous low flying aircraft. But to thousands of others the noise from gigantic polluting aircraft has come almost every minute for hour after hour as the lazy flight controllers at the Nashville Airport apparently are adding some good old bitterness into that exhaust-filled sky that is busting our roofs with incredible noise and coating them with layers of pollutants. Today, the jets over McMurray and Tusculum—plus many areas of Williamson County–were directed nonstop by the the lazy controllers at the Nashville airport because there was an N in the wind forecast. Rather than use good common sense, understand people get sick from too much of your guided noise and pollution over our homes, this airport and the FAA (which knows it is doing wrong) used two runways, per usual, rather than the four it has for departing and arriving flights. When the wind is from the north–any inkling north–the controllers get to drink coffee as they certainly seem to do little to nothing as far as directing airplanes. If you want to see someone’s homes and yards literally stolen from them, go visit the Tusculum area around Fairlane and watch how many hundreds and hundreds of airplanes fly over the same homes. I rarely see children outside and I warn those who live in this area, don’t let your kids play under these airplanes. There is a very good chance they will get sick, and the FAA and the BNA are very aware of this.

Today, I measured the air noise from 2:09 until 2:24. There were 8 giant passenger planes and 1 giant cargo jet that passed over during this period Those of you who weren’t chosen as the air traffic route losers by the FAA and BNA are lucky, but don’t think many of you aren’t living in the drift pattern of airplane exhaust. I have kept information further down on this page to show you at least how dangerous pollutants are from airplanes that continue to wreck our homes in South Nashville. And Crieve Hall, the low flying gigantic air polluting planes will be back soon. But you won’t see them 7,000 feet above your homes as pledged. If you do, it will be the first time I have seen the FAA be honest.

Our Crieve Hall councilman told us she was promised this would happen by Thanksgiving Day–7,000 feet over our homes versus 4,000 feet (which not even accurate now).

I would call and talk to the local FAA folks and ask them why they think killing us is ok, but the don’t list their names or numbers on the BNA website or anywhere that I can find. That ought to tell you something.

This is, and has been, an eminent domain issue without compensation. I have no doubt that citizens are protected against the evil deeds of their government in the 5th Amendment of the Constitution. There is no road destroying homes. It is much worse than that. Much Much worse than a road going through a piece of farmland.

Blogging the FAA and BNA: How Much Exhaust Are These Two Dumping On Homes In South Nashville–How Many Of Our Kids Will Be Victims Of Flight Mismanagement

The following groups are especially vulnerable to low-altitude jet pollution, according to AI:

• Populations near airports: People living within 10–20 kilometers (6–12 miles) of major airports are exposed to elevated levels of harmful emissions from aircraft during landing and takeoff cycles. (This would include the Tusculum area, but also Crieve Hall and surrounding areas)
• Children and asthmatics: Children are particularly susceptible to respiratory impacts, with studies showing elevated risks of respiratory symptoms near airports. Asthmatics have also shown a decline in lung function after short-term exposure to airport pollution.
• Those with pre-existing conditions: Individuals with respiratory problems, heart conditions, or diabetes are at higher risk of exacerbated symptoms from airport-related air pollution. 

• Ultrafine particles (UFPs): These particles are less than 100 nanometers and are small enough to be inhaled deep into the lungs, enter the bloodstream, and affect major organs. Exposure to UFPs is linked to health issues including:
  • Decreased lung function
  • Cardiovascular problems
  • Increased risk of dementia, diabetes, and high blood pressure
• Nitrogen oxides (NOx): These pollutants contribute to the formation of smog and can worsen respiratory issues like asthma. A 2016 study found that NOx accounted for a large portion of premature deaths caused by emissions from airport landing and takeoff operations.
• Black carbon: A component of soot, this pollutant is released in high concentrations near runways and is linked to various cardiopulmonary diseases.
• Other hazardous pollutants: Airport communities also face elevated levels of other toxins, such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and certain polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which can increase health risks. 

Who is most affected?

The risk is highest for people who live or work very close to airports, and the pollution can impact areas extending up to 10 miles or more downwind. Children, the elderly, and those with pre-existing conditions like asthma are particularly vulnerable. 

Impact on human health

• Increased illness and hospitalization: Studies have found increased hospital admissions for respiratory and heart conditions in people living near major airports, with effects most pronounced in young children and the elderly.
• Adverse birth outcomes: One study near Los Angeles International Airport found that exposure to aircraft emissions was associated with an increased rate of pre-term births.
• Widespread exposure: Research indicates that the areas affected by airport emissions are much larger than previously thought, impacting wider residential communities. 

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