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Re: Button offers instant gratification for those plagued by airplane noise

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Post by paulddraper » Mon, Dec 31, 2018, 9:05 PM UTC

isostatic wrote: post #143

paulddraper wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Actually I think people frequently don't know. Indeed. I bought my first house under a major flight path and didn't know it. Call me stupid, but I didn't know the traffic patterns. Namely that most traffic to the Salt Lake City Intentional Airport goes on a north-south route, and I lived due south of the airport. (The patterns are due to the surrounding Salt Lake Valley.) So despite being 15+ miles from the airport…

Didn’t you spend any time in the area you were buying a house before you signed?

Yes! We had the luxury of being able to visit it several times, since it was an in-state move.

But none of our visits happened midnight or early morning where the issue is most apparent.

Re: Button offers instant gratification for those plagued by airplane noise

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Post by bobthepanda » Mon, Dec 31, 2018, 10:25 PM UTC

Retric wrote: post #186

gambiting wrote: post #185

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Not everything is connected by HSR. Getting from Heathrow to city centre can take ~1.5h on public transport, and that's like ~15 miles in straight line.

If you're building an airport you can presumably also build other infrastructure. I am not saying it needs to be reach it in 20 minutes via HSR, just that distance is not the problem infrastructure is. Dulles airport was built 30 miles from DC in what was the middle of nowhere at the time even though DC already had an airport. "In 1965 Dulles averaged 89 airline operations a day while National Airport (now Reagan) av…

Dulles is only really successful because National has capacity restrictions and a limit on how far flights can go.

As a counterexample, Narita, is too far compared to Haneda.

Re: Button offers instant gratification for those plagued by airplane noise

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Post by askvictor » Mon, Dec 31, 2018, 10:49 PM UTC

sitkack wrote: post #187

askvictor wrote: post #27

Where can hobbyists purchase hackable/programmable internet buttons such as this for a reasonable price? I've seen a few around the place but the costs are exorbitant for what they are, and hacking the Amazon buttons is too much effort (and they're hard to get outside the US)

esp32 + button + lipo ~= [9,15] Nice thing is you could easily have multiple buttons and lights for feedback.

That's the route I'm going down, but for someone not so skilled in electric engineering, there's a bit of work getting the battery working and wiring up the switch, then making a suitable case. I'd like to just focus on the programming side of things, and am a little surprised there isn't an off the shelf solution.

Re: Button offers instant gratification for those plagued by airplane noise

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Post by Retric » Tue, Jan 01, 2019, 12:27 AM UTC

bobthepanda wrote: post #212

Retric wrote: post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're building an airport you can presumably also build other infrastructure. I am not saying it needs to be reach it in 20 minutes via HSR, just that distance is not the problem infrastructure is. Dulles airport was built 30 miles from DC in what was the middle of nowhere at the time even though DC already had an airport. "In 1965 Dulles averaged 89 airline operations a day while National Airport (now Reagan) av…

Dulles is only really successful because National has capacity restrictions and a limit on how far flights can go. As a counterexample, Narita, is too far compared to Haneda.

London like most major cities already has an airport. However, expanding airports means addicting a runway ~1.2km from existing runways which causes more noise issues as people are now effectively 1.2 km closer to the airport.

So, sure expanding existing airports is an option to consider, but doing so has a real and measurable negative impact on property values.

PS: I am not trying to promote a new airport further from London just saying such a thing is an option for London and most other major cities.