Button offers instant gratification for those plagued by airplane noise

Post by clubm8 » Mon, Dec 31, 2018, 2:38 AM UTC

cowsandmilk wrote: post #56

jimnotgym wrote: post #28

In the UK Gatwick and Heathrow airports have been there for a generation. By this I mean that the vast majority of people moved to their noise-affected houses knowing the airport was there already. Do these people deserve our sympathy? Initially i find it hard to be charitable towards them. In my local town there is a pub that has been there for around 600 years. A particularly pushy person moved in next door, compla…

Sure, an airport may have been there, but, in Boston at least, technology changes have made it so that if you are in the flight path, you have a much higher frequency of planes overhead. See the traffic from runway 33L at Logan airport as an example: https://www.universalhub.com/comment/559152#comment-559152 Basically, flights used to have diverse paths, so you would hear a plane occasionally. And so would everyone e…

Post by shaklee3 » Mon, Dec 31, 2018, 2:54 AM UTC

ilaksh wrote: post #18

In San Diego the airport is right downtown. Many people are pretty much gauranteed to be dealing with airplane noise regardless of the routes taken to land. Of course La Jolla is probably the most expensive area in San Diego. Should we route the airplanes around them? Lol. I mean you can't move the airports and most people can't move their houses so it feels like this is mostly a structural issue. And to me more dire…

Post by morpheuskafka » Mon, Dec 31, 2018, 2:57 AM UTC

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Dec 31, 2018, 3:11 AM UTC

Anechoic wrote: post #32

cyberferret wrote: post #23

Just wondering if these devices are only issued to people who had houses in that area before the airport was built. IMO if you knowingly purchase a residence under a flight path, you lose any privilege of complaining about the noise. Modern aviation is already far quieter, and there are plenty of regulations in place to minimise the noise footprint (e.g. modern fanjet engines are far quieter than the older turbojets,…

IMO if you knowingly purchase a residence under a flight path, you lose any privilege of complaining about the noise. It's not just about knowingly purchasing a home under a flight path, it's also about the commitments made by airports and airlines. For example, an excessive noise event may be caused by a pilot not following a proper noise abatement procedure. And while airplanes have gotten quieter over the last 30…

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Dec 31, 2018, 3:36 AM UTC

sandworm101 wrote: post #25

A small part of my job (air force) is taking noise complaints. I find their rate has absolutely nothing to do with actual noise. It is all about time of day. A rainy tuesday afternoon: we can land on a roof without complaint from the owners. But on a sunny saturday evening, suddenly the same flight pattern we have flown for years without issue starts my phone ringing. Standard, honest, responses: 1) Civilian air traf…