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And despite all that, the FAA can still route a large percentage of all air traffic on approach to a major international airport right over the top of the “wilderness area”.

Nothing like listening to few hours of planes on approach to SeaTac to spoil the whole “untrammeled by man” thing.

(Not that I have a good solution to this problem. Air traffic noise abatement involves a ton of tradeoffs)






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