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From: ems@amdahl.UUCP (ems)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Poetic justice
Message-ID: <1680@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Jun-85 15:40:32 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 17 15:40:32 1985
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> >>         In a reversal of roles most airports are unaccustomed to,
> >> a Torrance,   California attorney has recently filed suit to raze
> >> homes in a 5 mile radius of the airport because they are  ruining
> >> his  free  access  to  the  airport.  
> >>
> >> My airplane is of no use to me without an airport to land".
> >> 
> >> Quoted from: "ILLINOIS AVIATION" Vol. 37, No. 3, May/June, 1985
> 
>  And while were on this how about curfews. I would like to leave 
>  early (0500) and the airport is closed til 0630 or come in late at
>  nite and another closed airport. Sigh! We do need quieter birds
>  but this is too much.

I know, I know, this is like wearing a white sheet to an NAACP
rally or advocating abortion at a Right-to-life meeting; but I
just have to do it ... (Who ME? Masochistic?)

My house does not make noise.  Airplanes do.  Make the airplanes quiet
and the problem will go away.  NASA has some VERY quiet craft used
to demonstrait that it can be done.

I *LOVE AND ADORE* aircraft.  I also live under the approach to
San Jose.  The vast majority of light aircraft are no problem at
all.  Every now and then, though, along comes some bozo making
what sounds like 120db in my back yard.  Mind you, I'm several
miles from the airport.  About where the big jets turn final.

Put a muffler on the one or two flying chain saw factories and most
of the problem with light aircraft will be solved.

My real gripe?  The commercial aircraft comming in low and slow
on very extended final,  Straight in from L.A. with no turns.
Maybe it's the fact that I have flown more in sailplanes than
private power, but it looks to me like they couldn't make the
field in a power off landing if they had to.  Why not get them
buzzards up a bit higher and glide in with minimum power and noise?

The other gripe?  I don't want to be awakened *EVERY DAY* at 5:00
and go to bed *EVERY NIGHT* at midnight.  Five hours a night won't
make it.  Either zone the areas in the flight path industrial, or
keep the aircraft quiet and the airports closed during normal sleeping
hours.

There needs to be a reasonable solution to the land/air use questions
presented by aviation noise.  (And it's not just a matter of who
got there first, jets weren't arround when many of these airports
were first built - the noise problem came *AFTER* the housing had
been in existance for some time.)  Perhaps it lies in restricting
the allowed noise level for aircraft operating from sensitive fields,
perhaps in re-zoning to industrial and buying out the housing for
industrial parks (maybe building low cost, quiet, general avaition
craft??!! - hope springs eternal... maybe someday I can afford one),
or maybe in something as simple as changing flight practices for a
less noisy approach/departure.  As much as it makes people feel
good, filing legal action (by either side) will not solve the problem,
just move it to another field.
-- 

E. Michael Smith  ...!{hplabs,ihnp4,amd,nsc}!amdahl!ems

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