Regulations and Government
North Shore Helo Route Extended
FAA expects that four more years will be sufficient time to consider results of noise-mitigation research.

The FAA has extended by four years—to Aug. 6, 2020—the expiration date of the rule requiring pilots operating civil helicopters under VFR to continue to use the New York North Shore Helicopter Route when flying along that area of Long Island. The agency expects that four more years will be sufficient time to consider results of noise-mitigation research currently under way in determining appropriate future actions on the rule, which was scheduled to have expired on Aug. 6, 2016. 


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