VENICE — It appears that the culprit behind a reported increase in jet traffic over the Golden Beach and Gulf Shores neighborhoods may have been identified: the Federal Aviation Administration.
City Council Member Ron Smith said at Tuesday’s meeting that several pilots had reached out to him about a change in the flight path for aircraft taking off on runway 13-31 heading north.
They told him the new flight path takes pilots over the neighborhoods instead of on a more westerly heading south of them, to the Gulf…