US airlines (and others) have spent lots of money on engines, in order to comply with Stage 3 noise regs.
There are too many wealthy people in the MSP Twin Cities (not to mention the overabundance of radically left-wing feminist attorneys, who secretly run that sorry state), who either are ignorant of the fact or simply want to use pressure on the Airport Authority and FAA, which results in westerly departures having to comply with the (very non-standard) close-in noise abatement procedure: NADP. This procedure applies to communities such as MSP, (PBI) West Palm Beach, (HPN) White Plains, NY: wealthy areas with too many wealthy SOBs who have the arrogance and ignorance to lean on their politicians (or somehow compensate, indirectly), who lean on the FAA, in order to require us to use entirely different power-reduction/clean-up procedures. Only such pompous types are the cause of this procedure, because we already have Stage 3 engines.
Otherwise, we would use these procedures at all airports which are not in the Special Airport category. Without local "inducements", possibly artificially low real estate options ("early word" on foreclosures...), pilots would not have the extra, highly non-standard bull***t during an already very busy period (anti-icing on, radio switching, altitude call-outs etc).
An FO claimed that a developer is now building houses at the new Denver airport.
[ 29 December 2001: Message edited by: Ignition Override ]</p>