daffy wrote:
Quite a good article in the Nov/Dec AARP magazine titled "Listening
for Quiet".
It talks about a silent sanctuary in Washington's Olympic National
park. The article concluded by someone complaining about the silence broken by a small
plane.

I love flying but I also love wilderness camping. Although I would not
vote to ban aircraft from flying over unpopulated areas, I would rather
not hear them when I'm enjoying the wilderness.

In a similar way, I enjoy both fly fishing and white-water canoeing,
although the two are incompatible.

I suggest we simply need to develop a tolerance, or perhaps respect, for
the other fellow's recreation even if it occasionally interferes with ours.

The article said "The small plane flying north more than doubles the
ambient sound....

Well, if really was "a silent sanctuary," then doubling the sound would
not make much difference: two times zero decibels = zero decibels.

vince norris




, and we react to the intruder as a threat, drawing in, tracking the
source, hunching for
cover until the last traces of engine noise finally die away."