rocketman5150
Well-Known Member
I deal with these people - heard from them at a community sustainability meeting the other night. They all seem to think that airports are getting noisier and that planes are flying different paths closer to their neighborhood. Very little you can do to reason with them. They all imagine the airport being quieter in the past, when in fact, it's quieter now.
Airplanes are quieter, but when you consider the growth of the air transportation industry in the past 30 years, I would daresay airports HAVE become noisier. Which would you rather have; 1 loud departure per hour, or 10 "quiet" departures?
Quieter airplanes do necessarily translate to a quiet airport,