daffy wrote:
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The FAA should regulate the noise levels of these planes before
they become a real nusance, and private aircraft will be completly
banned.


"Small" misspelled notwithstanding, an appropriate usenet
poster name on this topic?? Anyway, I live on 3/4 mile
centerline from the field where my small plane is based.
Small plane noise is no biggie, and my neighbors don't bitch
at all. Even bizjets -- if not the newer generation which
are really quiet, their velocities are such the event is
half over through one's reaction time.

Like what really frosts me is noise from neighbors' lawn
mowers, especially lawn tractors. I mean they're really
nice people and all, but if I can afford a small plane, why
those people should have the common courtesy to buy
top-shelf, with a real good muffler, like one new John Deere
I heard. Why, I never realized how loud my cheapass
Craftsman weed eater was, 'til I replaced it with actually
another cheapass Toro on sale but starts real quick. I
couldn't look like a dork wearing hearing protection like
the instructions show, especially when neighbors know I fly
a little airplane up there on departure from said field.

Ooooh....the event which makes me so mad I could get myself
arrested. Like the music from the ice cream vans cruising
at 5 mph. If I hear Scott Joplin in annoying electronic
tones at 85dB just one more time (like little kids recognize
Scott Joplin), I just might grab a shotgun and take out
those big bullhorn speakers atop the van. Those disgusting
little kiddies (a la W. C. Fields) just gotta have their ice
cream on Mommy's money on a hot day, or the small
businessman driving the van is just trying to earn a living.

Gotta be nice to have so few problems that what minor,
fleeting, things other people do can be such a nuisance.
Like seeing folks driving and yapping on a cell phone in
probably a pure social call, esp one of the two genders. To
self: enough already!! ;-)

Fred F.