Cost of doing business. What does she want, for the airport to be torn down and the runways re-laid because she's mildly inconvenienced? NIMBY's at it again.
Another case study in the two airports in a city operation, Edmonton when it had both the City Centre airport and "Leduc International". Needless to say it set the air services back in YEG quite a ways, and YYC benefited from it enormously.
It was the years of commercial operators (airlines) still be allowed to operate into City Centre (with no aircraft capacity limitations) that hurt growth prospects from the international considerably. With hindsight they probably should have just shuttered City Centre to all commercial airlines the minute the international was up and running.
SW residents complaining can NEVER take a flight to/from Vancouver, Victoria, Nanaimo, Comox, Cranbrook, Kelowna, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Honolulu, Maui and also probable Salt Lake City, Phoenix, Portland (seasonal), Palm Springs, Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Vallarta, and Mazatlan.
I'm sure I'm forgetting some.
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Considering that arriving aircraft typically fly over head that area at 8000-10000 ft (4400-6400 ft above ground). She should probably just move to Edmonton where crimes against humanity such as this don't occur.
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I feel like they must have all their windows open 24 hours a day for that level of noise to be a bother. There are days where lots of planes fly right over my place in Canyon Meadows and even with windows open it's never enough to disrupt anything. That lady must be a real light sleeper.
I actually like the increased air traffic in the NW. I like using Flight Radar to see where they are arriving from, and the noise (if you can call it that) is never more than a distant hum.
I grew up in Beddington and loved the air traffic, and Tuscany was always a relative dead zone for airplanes. Now I get the occasional flight flying overhead and it is nice. Even if I didn't like planes, if have a hard time placing this on a personal scale of discontentment.
It's frustrating when they straight up lie about how high the planes are. 8,000 in the west downwind when landing south, 7,500 landing north. Somewhat good news is that this is something they could fix if actually needed - just have the planes higher (altitude in green circle) in the west downwind which means they have to fly longer finals and burn more gas, or just move the red circled fixes in the west downwind west a few miles. There's no real argument to be had about noise in the downwind though, that's ridiculous... the planes are still clean with their gear and flaps mostly stowed using low power, hardly any noise compared to what Skyview Ranch and Rundle are dealing with.
Growing up in Coventry Hills, I found an odd comfort in hearing planes pass by. Once you get used to it, it's kind of just white noise. The lady needs to either suck it up, or move. Simple as that.
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Growing up in Coventry Hills, I found an odd comfort in hearing planes pass by. Once you get used to it, it's kind of just white noise. The lady needs to either suck it up, or move. Simple as that.
Or trains passing through for anyone who lived in a town of less than 20k people.
The only time I noticed planes flying overhead was when I golfed at McCall Lake as a kid. Seemed to always be one flying right overhead whenever it was my shot. Totally different situation there though, as the planes were quite low at that point (obviously).
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When I first moved to Calgary, I rented a place on Coach Hill and you could regularly hear planes. Are people just noticing now?
Is it like an annoying squeal you don't notice until someone points it out to you, but after that it drives you nuts?
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Then, there’s Mary Nieman, who’s lived in the area since 1992, but said only since the parallel runway opened has she begun to experience constant headaches she believes are caused by the planes.
Its the chemtrails, I tell you!! CHEMTRAILS!!!
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Growing up in Coventry Hills, I found an odd comfort in hearing planes pass by. Once you get used to it, it's kind of just white noise. The lady needs to either suck it up, or move. Simple as that.
I grew up in Panorama Hills, and loved to hear the planes on their final to 10 (now it's 11). Since the opening of the parallel runway, I miss the sound, since there's reduced traffic on 11/29
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