Vintage Throttle
Vintage Throttle Private Plane Nuisance? I live in a scenic part of Tucson, Arizona (Gates Pass) and we get a LOT of private plane traffic over the Pass including aerobatic planes, vintage planes, and...
Vintage Throttle
 Private Plane Nuisance? I live in a scenic part of Tucson, Arizona (Gates Pass) and we get a LOT of private plane traffic over the Pass including aerobatic planes, vintage planes, and kit planes. Although they are probably legal, more than a few seem to operate at minimum altitude and full throttle; i.e. LOUD! I would guess we have at least 5 low flyovers every Sat/Sun morning and at least 2-3 low flyovers on weekdays. You can even hear some in the shower early in the morning! What can I do? I've contacted the FAA, the airports, the flight companies, the government, individuals, etc. What else can I do? Tuscon, if I recall correctly, has a large flight training facility. You have 3 options. You can chose to do nothing and ignore it, you can decide you want to take on another mortgage while you move and try to sell your old home, or you can do what I do; learn to love aviation. I've been intimately involved with some form of aviaiton or another for the last 13 years. Few things thrill me like being able to hear an airplane and have a good idea what make and model it is before it gets to a point where I can see it. Radial pistons, opposed pistons, V-pistons, (think P-51 or P-38,) inline pistons, inline inverted pistons, (such as the old Ranger on a PT-19,) reverse flow turboprops, axial flow turboprops, reverse flow turboprops acting as axial flow turboprops, turbojets, turbofans of varying degrees of by-pass, all make their own distinctive sound. As long as the aircraft in question aren't violating altitude laws, which they likely wouldn't going into the local airport, there's nothing you can do except maybe take an introduction lesson at the local FBO. Once you've flown, in a small plane and seeing as close as legally possible, the scenery, you'll never be able to look at the same scenery from the ground in the same way you did before and you'll come to love the magnificent aircraft that were designed when slide rules were the calculators of the days when you couldn't solve a math problem on paper and the ratchet wrench didn't exist. A 4th possibility just sprang to mind; you can spend a few grand, get your home's elevation surveyed, invest in a surveyor's telescope and report anyone under FAA regs provided you have their tail number, documented times, detailed notes on directions and wind factors. So, your problem boils down to an inability to conveniently stop the flights, investing a massive amount of money and time into equipment and documentation to attempt to prove aircraft are operating illegally, embracing and coming to love private flight, or getting up to move house and home because the airplanes, and airport, have been there longer than you have. The likelihood that an airplane passing over is an actual threat to you is very slim. The Airplane Owners and Pilots Association, (AOPA,) is already feeling the loss of municipal airports and beginning to succesfully argue cases to keep airports open that neighboring residents have tried to close. Those are the facts as I know them. You choose what you're going to do. JT |
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