The Boca Raton Airport Authority has always worked with homeowner associations to mitigate noise issues, but flight patterns are the jurisdiction of the Federal Aviation Administration and cannot be changed by the Airport Authority Landing patterns are based on the orientation of the runway and wind direction, with planes landing and taking off into the wind. Boca Raton Airport’s single runway is oriented northeast/southwest. Winds in this area are usually out of the northeast so planes typically land and take off in that direction, however operations can and do happen to the southwest when weather patterns change wind direction.