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On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 10:06:08 -0800, "C J Campbell"
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The reality is that you do not have a Constitutional right to control the
airspace above your property.

The reality is, that the solution lies in a technological approach to
aircraft noise reduction.

Do you have such a technological solution? How much will it cost? Who is
going to pay for it? What about people who are still bothered by the noise,
even if it is not as bad as before? What about legacy aircraft?

The reality is there is no technological solution. At least not one that is
going to make everybody happy.

The reality is that we all have to put up with some noise and that efforts
to displace that problem to others or concentrate the problem on just a few
people are bound to fail.

People keep saying the FAA has no credibility on this issue. Well, what does
anyone think that the FAA should do about it? I mean, realistically, you are
an FAA guy and you get these continual complaints about noise from
aerobatics over a small area. What are you going to do about it? Move the
box to another area and get complaints from over there? Stop the pilots from
doing aerobatics and put up with their complaints (and lawsuits)?

I truly feel sorry for people living under aerobatics boxes. I really do.
But the truth of the matter is that the box is over their house because so
many people have already complained about the box being somewhere else.

Everyone (and I mean absolutely everyone -- from the property owners to
pilots to the FAA) have their backs against the wall on this issue. There is
not much room left to maneuver (so to speak). I think the anti-noise people
and pilots and the FAA have painted themselves into a corner trying to deal
with it.

I do not think that the insane rhetoric coming from groups like Stop the
Noise is helping at all. It only makes them look like a bunch of ridiculous
crackpots. As for the pilots, we have an obligation to jealously guard our
right to fly, even while we can sympathize with those bothered by the noise.

If you think there are noise complaints now, just think what would happen if
Stop the Noise got its way. The noisy areas would be so concentrated that
they would be almost uninhabitable. In fact, that is what we have now. The
callous disregard of Stop the Noise for the peace and lives of other people
is shocking, when you get right down to it.