Jay Honeck wrote:

That's another good thing for the original poster to check. Make sure
he's on the approach side of town in relation to the most commonly-used
runway. Planes passing over at low-power settings are not bothersome.

that's very true; I live right under the short final (less than 2nm)
of one of the 32 runways of Moffett Federal Airfield; for one thing
there is not much traffic, but interesting a/c land there, from AF1 or
2, a huge Antonov, F18s, C130s, various helicopters, etc.,
really cool :-), but in the last two years that I have lived here, I
saw only one aircraft (a C130) take off from 14 (and I reckon it was
part of whatever training thing they were doing) right over my house;
it is really no bother at all; when I work at home, I keep my VHF on
the tower frequency in case I miss something :-) (my cat however,
is scared silly by the F18s, other aircraft are ok, regardless of
size or noise levels...)

--Sylvain