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I wish this would also work with military flights. There's a lot of people here talking about NIMBYism and how you should know before you buy your house and wh
by tristor 8y ago
I wish this would also work with military flights. There's a lot of people here talking about NIMBYism and how you should know before you buy your house and what-not. I agree with most of that, except I don't think it fairly applies here in many cases. Take myself as an anecdote. I bought a house in a nice, quiet, neighborhood 7 years ago. I also live in a city with multiple active military bases, including two Air Force bases which do training flights. At the time it was established practice to limit training flights to daytime if they were overflying residential areas, I worked night-shift so it was annoying, but what can you do?
Now I work days, and multiple times per day and into the late night (stops around Midnight/1AM) there will be military training flights over my neighborhood. These are not high-altitude flyovers with some noise, these are young Air Force pilots in training flying over low, and sometimes breaking the sound barrier over my neighborhood (but at least high enough altitude that it's not breaking windows). I've adapted by basically shifting my sleep schedule so I go to bed around Midnight when it stops. What else can I do?
Short of using my personal connections locally to find out who their CO is and calling them on the phone directly, there is basically no process for me to complain. I'm also pretty certain that generating sonic booms over a neighborhood at night is probably against their training orders, and they'd get disciplined, but since I have no pathway to complain and it's something that could not reasonably be expected, I'm just stuck with it unless I want to move.
It's not a daily occurrence, but probably happens at least 3-4 times per week after 9PM.
There's a reason the pricing for homes is lower next to the airport or next to the Air Force base vs in my previously quiet neighborhood which is in a suburb more than 5 miles from both.