Why is it with emails everyone only gets half the story? Did you not read my second note? I fly for a living as well. I should learn not to joke about freedom in which I fought for in Dessert Storm in an email post. Particulary, a freedom in which fellow soldiers are dying for now! I believe a comment about drinking too much the night before when the A-7 would fly over the barracks the next morning was my worst experience with aircraft engine noise and might be uncalled for in this setting and I apologize for doing so...Now, if you have never heard an A-7 turn downwind over your head then these people who complain about noise don't know noise from this retired Vietnam era aircraft.
Everything you wrote I agree. But, you should of really used more exclamation points. Unfortunately, CNN or USA Today probably would not print it nor would anti-airport/noise opponents read it. I guess that's why I am into gliders and they are quiet except the Sharon's when the flaps are deployed. :-) The airport I used to fly out of here in Dallas, there is a housing development just to the south of the end of the runway (7,500' length), about 2 miles, is building homes for $500,000 to 1 million. They are lying to the new home buyers that the airport, which has been there for 50+ years, is going to close. The city which ownes the airport has been looking at the airport as a money making machine for the past 5 years or so. I flew a King Air in there on a publish GPS approach and the residents complained about the noise.
I fly a Sabreliner on contract and enjoy making noise.
Don
On Tue Jul 5 7:20 , "Keith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent:
Since when? As a professional pilot who has watched people build and buy
homes closer and closer to airports that have been there for many tens of
years, and some a hell of a lot longer than that, I question their
intelligence, education and common sense. Airports are and always will be
good for the community, especially from a financial perspective! And those
that are home to military squadrons play an even more important role! Most
airports generate more steady-state revenue for the local community than
people ever seem to realize. And why is it that when people have to travel
somewhere and choose to go by airline, the average joe traveling public
seems to always be complaining about how much of a pain it is to get to the
airport because it's so far away, etc. Everyone seems to want an airport
nearby when it serves their personal purposes, but are quick to condemn them
if an airplane flies overhead. And those that complain about ticket prices
on airlines have no clue what it costs to operate an airplane or airline.
Airlines RARELY make much if any profit at all. Most operate in the red!
Airlines operate on such thin margins that few people in their right mind
would ever invest in one! The incredible lack of understanding and general
ignorance of what's involved in supporting and operating aircraft is not
just limited to the general public, but sadly also includes those that
actually work in the industry (It's all I can do to keep from blowing up
when I listen on a discrete frequency to some airline pilots complaining
about their contracts, pay and benefit packages as we cruise along at
40,000' over the Atlantic or Pacific routes sometimes). It's really a sad
thing.
*sigh*.... okay, I'll get off my soapbox now. Sorry to all for my little
rant off-topic...
BUT.... before I go... how can anyone not be turned on by the sound of
50,000 pound thrust G.E. or Pratt and Whitney engines in afterburner, even
if it IS at O-dark thirty in the morning?
Keith McLellan (crazy about every kind of flying machine imagineable for
over 43 years now)
Captain
New World Aviation
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Copley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Chuck Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <soaring@airage.com>
Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 11:25 AM
Subject: RE: [RCSE] F-16 Flyby-Happy 4th of July
> Sound of freedom can really be obnoxious at times :-)
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