Why are planes flying over this area, we re not under a flight path?
Aircraft associated with Logan Airport tend to fly within broad airspace corridors as the FAA directs aircraft to and from the airfield. If you live within one of these corridors, you will likely experience aircraft over flights. How and to what frequency any particular land area is impacted depends on, the weather, the runways being used, the type of aircraft, aircraft engine characteristics and relative distance from the airport. Some communities are impacted by more than one runway operation, some by just one specific operation others may be impacted by traffic not related to Logan Airport (particularly when helicopters are involved). Airport Monitor or Massport s Noise Abatement Office can assist you to better understand this relationship between where you live and airport over flights. The Greater Boston region experiences many types of aircraft over flights that may or may not be related to Boston Logan depending on where you live. In the Greater Boston airspace, at any point in
