I wonder how many airport neighbors hear trucks on the highway gearing down
and think it's a noisy airplane disturbing their peace!

"Earl Grieda" wrote in
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"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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I do think that the demands of airport neighbors that airplanes
make no noise whatsoever are unreasonable. I personally think that
most complaints about noise are really just an excuse to make
airplanes go away. Most people are basically superstitious morons
who have irrational fears of anything that is even a little bit
outside their experience.


Making no noise is probably unreasonable. I suppose even a hot-air
ballon makes some noise ascending. The airport/neighbor noise issue is
difficult to resolve because "resonable/unreasonable" are to subective
a term. Would a requirement that an aircraft on departure sound no
louder at 500 feet than a 2005 factory Accord sound at full power
accelerating from stop onto a freeway with 70 MPH traffic? Not for a
new aircraft designed to that specification, but unreasonable for
existing aircraft. But since it will take decades before existing
aircraft disappear noise will be an issue over and over.

I doubt if "most complaints about noise" are about making aircraft go
away. They probably are about making the noise go away.

Earl G