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Those people can curse all they want, but the airports predate their homeownership.
by unchocked 6y ago
Those people can curse all they want, but the airports predate their homeownership.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoAs much of a dick move as it is, it's not uncommon for homeowners to band together and work through local government to take down sources of noise that long predate them. When the source is a small airport or a local racetrack they often win.
- jeffbee 6y agoThe date the airport was built is nor always important. People in my area are upset because FAA nextgen approaches always fly precisely over the same guy's house every time, where they used to be a bit more scattered. Now the Oakland airport was built in 1927 and most of these houses date from the 1940s, but air travel has increased a lot on the intervening decades.
- redis_mlc 6y agoYou should not be able to hear a small plane at idle on landing approach, and VFR final approaches are not charted (can substantially vary in ground track.) So talk to a local FBO owner and work out an alternate landing for that "same guy's house." Source: commercially-rated airplane pilot.
- jeffbee 6y agoThe angry neighbor club isn't upset about GA on approach, they're mad because the new WNDSR TWO arrival into OAK flies a tight corridor right along the ridgeline where people live in the Oakland hills. Here's the flight that most recently flew it: https://flightaware.com/live/flight/SWA743/history/20200531/0135Z/KPDX/KOAK https://flightaware.com/live/flight/SWA743/history/20200531/... That's all got nothing to do with why GA is irritating. GA is irritating because their little mosquitoes are low and slow and have piston engine sounds and their pilots have a tendency to loiter.
- WalterBright 6y agoI live under the Seatac landing pattern. The noise that bugs me are the leafblowers.
- redis_mlc 6y agoFor commercial flight paths, talk to the FSDO.