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I manage a small airport for the city in northern Wisconsin. My
neighbors are close to the runup pads, and are neither particularily pro or con aviation, but I do have to listen to their occasional complaints about noise & do what I can to minimize it. I find a multiple runnup and rundown sounds annoying myself. There may be reasons but they have their negative consequences too. Well you do appear to be moderating your initial position, but if pilots running up their engines actually do create insurmountable problems with your neighbours, then perhaps it is time to move or close your airfield. Because the alternative is increasing the risk that one of those pilots may just go through your neighbours roof! And to me, that is much more unacceptable than the sound of a 30 second runup. I also wish to add that, while there are many places in usernet where I could see this discussion occurring, rec.aviation.piloting is certainly not one of them. In flying, you don't learn from your mistakes - you learn from other peoples mistakes - because it is often the first mistake that can kill you. And if the experts say do a runup, and the neighbours say don't, then you had better be making the right choice. But that is just my opinion - and I learned long ago that in usernet, even if all I say is that the sun will rise tomorrow morning, I will get a couple of posts telling me that I don't know what I'm talking about because it definitely won't! So I will just continue putting the safety of my aircraft, my passengers and myself first, while truly regretting that I may have just inconvenienced a neighbour by having them hear my runup. I guess on this one we'll just agree to disagree. But I thank you for your post and your opinion. Tony Tony Roberts PP-ASEL VFR OTT Night Cessna 172H C-GICE |
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![]() So I will just continue putting the safety of my aircraft, my passengers and myself first, while truly regretting that I may have just inconvenienced a neighbour by having them hear my runup. I guess on this one we'll just agree to disagree. But I thank you for your post and your opinion. Every airport is given an undefined noise budget from its neighbors. A few years ago I was on the Board managing another recreational/glider private-open-to-the-public-grass strip airport We had a lot of Cubs etc based there with the gliders, but we had an active jump club with a C-206 that completely used up our noise budget with the county commissioners when we wanted to increase the number of hangars. Although they flew the 206 as quietly as reasonable, we only had to sit and listen while the locals said "we don't have no problems with those Cubs and stuff - but there's that one airplane that makes all the noise". We were happy when they left, and we got our hangars. Hasn't been a problem since. Safety is not being served well when an airport closes. |
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