mook Wrote:
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> Complaining about airplane noise? Not far from SF
> Intl. and Googleplex (Moffatt)? Duh? The same
> thing happens in the Sacramento area, though - the
> El Dorado people scream about being kept awake all
> night by jets landing at Mather, but if you look
> at actual nonmilitary traffic
> [flightaware.com] there are
> no landings by anybody, usually, between about
> 8:30 PM and 4 AM, and the first flight crossing ED
> Co. typically isn't until after 5 AM. Most traffic
> is in the daytime. Methinks it's analogous to the
> oil train thing (I notice it ergo it's bad). What
> they're probably hearing c. midnite are
> overflights from the Bay Area and Sac Intl. as
> they climb out to the east.

Reminds one of DIA (Denver). In order to keep Adams
County happy, they had to install noise monitors around
the north end of the airport and pay fines when the
noise exceeded certain levels.

Sure enough, they paid a few fines.

Then came September 11 and 12, 2001 when nothing flew
in or out of Denver. Adams county's machines still showed
noise violations at DIA for those two days, and they had
to pay.

As sidebar to that was some hippie living in the mountains
over 150 miles away from the airport who filed noise complaints
numerous times every day. They finally figured out this
bozo objected to airplanes flying through "HIS" airspace
at 30,000 feet. When they got through fining him, he had
quite a change of heart.