John Weiss wrote:
"Jim Carriere" wrote...
Basically a whole new base far away from the current population centers would
have to be made, and that still wouldn't address the weather.

Neither would it address the population!

When they were built, Oceana, Cecil, Miramar, Chase, Kingsville, Whiting, etc.
ad nauseum WERE "far away from the current population centers"! Don't you
realize that the mere existence of a military air base ATTRACTS population?!?
Not only do the military and their families arrive, but the civilian "support"
and the merchants that make their money from selling to all the above! Then the
developers arrive and turn former wasteland and current "buffer zones" into
"luxury condominiums"!

Hell, it isn't even restricted to MILITARY airports! Look just outside MIA,
where some fly-by-night outfit is trying to sell pre-construction condos
literally 300 feet under a major final approach course!

Where is "eminent domain" when you really need it?!?

Last year one of the sales kids at a boat shop in Destin, FL was making
conversation with me and one of my friends. He (the kid) commented how
much unused land was around Eglin AFB and how valuable it would be if
the government would sell it off to be developed. My friend and I
silently shook our figurative heads on that one.

We always joke that morons, sorry, people who bought the houses right
near base must have bought on a weekend ("you'll barely notice the
airplane noise, it's quiet like this all the time"). On the lighter
side, the developers selling housing next to busy civilian airports must
be _really_ clever. Maybe they get a lot of business on the days the
winds favor a different runway.