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Mike,
. She bought her house near the airport I fly out of, JYO, in Leesburg, VA. Now she is like "I hope they close the airport, it is so noisy". No Sh#& Sherlock. You didn't hear the noise when you went to see the house thousands of times when it was being built????
Sorry, this is a touchy topic for me. Just to teach these people a lesson, I hope that more companies base their corprate jets out of JYO, and have lots of 6:00 AM departures.
Mahesh
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Exactly. Like people that move next to an Air Force Base, then complain that it's noisy and they weren't told there was an air base next to them; they must have moved in on a Sunday or federal holiday or something......
Best thing I loved when I used to fly out of Scottsdale (noise abatement hell) was when some of the corporate jets would do their early morning departures. And I don't mean your average corporate jet; I mean an older Sabreliner 40 that has the J60 straight-turbojets (not fans, you know, the engines that convert raw fuel into raw thrust, are noisy and smoky as hell?) doing an early morning takeoff and just rattling EVERYTHING with the noise.
Here at my base, we had an E-3 AWACS come in one Friday night @2215 to practice some approaches prior to landing. While it was doing it's go arounds from the ILS approaches, someone got the tower number and called directly to make a noise complaint "of the huge airplane flying right over my house". The tower supervisor asked the caller if she could "actually see the aircraft passing overhead". "Yes, and it's loud and keeping me awake". Tower Sup asks if she "could see any red star markings underneath the wings". "No" was the reply. Sup replies "Then we're doing our freaking job, ma'am. Be advised this is an ATC facility and you are affecting our ops. Don't call here again."