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by clamprecht 1388 days ago
How will California cities justify closing general aviation airports now?
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Sadly not just CA. Another favorite lie is "safety." Despite the fact that the road going past any given airport has suffered more fatalities in a few years than the airport has seen in its history, land-speculating trash love to trot out the "safety" excuse.

Take the current poster child for corrupt destruction of our airports: Santa Monica. Not one neighbor of that airport has been killed by an aircraft IN A CENTURY. But the street going past it kills a person per year.

And rich, white people who want to goose their property values come out not only to regurgitate discredited FUD, but to complain that the airport is used by rich, white people. Meanwhile they're just fine with a golf course operating next to it during a permanent drought and a "housing crisis."

BTW, Ann Heche crashed her car and burned down a house not far from Santa Monica... where are the calls to shut down that street?

noise.

"the airplanes landing at this airport that was here when I moved are very loud and should not be allowed to land here anymore."

They could also argue that the airplanes will cast a shadow on neighboring parks/houses.
This is a standard in my country but with farm smells and noises. People buy a house "in the country", then they complain about manure on fields, cows mooing and tractor noises.
Considering that FAA lowered a bunch of flight paths over the last ~5 years, kinda feels like a bait and switch. My parents' place was always pretty quiet since it's 20+ miles from the nearest major airport, but after FAA Nextgen was implemented it got fairly noisy from all the airliners passing over.
I'm curious, where did this happen?
KONT, here's a video of the NIMBY (NOMBY?) complaints: https://youtu.be/MenUDN35uCM
ok, nothing was lowered, but nextgen and the reliance on satellite based navigation is allowing the planes to take more direct routes. this necessarily takes them over areas where they didn't fly before.

i'm sympathetic to the homeowners, but the routes are more efficient and planes burn less fuel. and if the difference is really only a few miles as the guy said in the video, we're talking about ~15 seconds of inconvenience per plane (planes look like they're flying over the lakes ~300 kts), and from checking adsexchange/flightradar, we're not talking about a huge number of planes.

Easy: "We need that land for more strip malls, box stores, and overpriced condos."
Noise