Nuno wrote in again today, and this one stung a little more than the time-window mix-up last time. He'd gone and actually read the ANAC regulations, page by page, and worked out that the airport's night quota system allows up to 26 movements a day within the restricted window, as long as the aircraft meets a noise certification bar. TAP alone can legally fly at least three of those every night. Do the math and the monthly quota comfortably exceeds the number of "violations" this station has been reporting every month since May.
Which meant the word "violation" was doing something I hadn't fully thought through: claiming a proven regulatory breach I have no way to verify from one microphone on one terrace. I don't know which flights were inside the legal quota. I don't know which aircraft met the noise certification bar. I know what I measured, and that's it.
So the word is gone. Everywhere it said "Violation," it now says "Alert" — the reports, the site, the admin dashboard, even the text that feeds the Instagram captions. Four already-published PDFs got the same fix applied retroactively, since it's wording, not data. Turns out the Portuguese and French translations had already quietly drifted toward "alerta"/"alerte" months ago, which either means someone translating this site is smarter than the person writing it, or I should read my own website more carefully, in more than one language.
Half-joking. The honest version: a citizen station only stays honest because people keep reading closely enough to catch what the person running it missed. Nuno's done it twice this week. I'm not complaining.