Seagull over Canaryland
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Curious post. Airshows normally only last for about a couple of days and the portion of time there is noisy flying is brief but obviously can be intense so understandably will not be everyones cup of tea. Perhaps the complainants should keep a sense of perspective.
Is there a bit of a parallel with noise from first team games (ie a few hours once per fortnight on average) at the Amex annoying the natives? How would a local Albion fan feel about that?
One of the aspects to living in my part of the country is that we get an unofficial airshow most weekdays courtesy of the three RAF & USAF bases we have within a 30 mile radius. They are homes to Typhoons, Tornados and F15s (ie potentially as noisy as it gets) that routinely head out past our village out over the North Sea, returning later. Occasionally we get one or two planes being hooligans and come screaming through at roof top height but generally it is only background noise and you get used to it. Our pets seem to be able to ignore it. Most punters around here put up with it because these guys are normally training for Afghanistan or Libya plus the bases make a big contribution to the community and local economy. The RAF does occasional PR items in the media to explain why it needs to fly (!) even so the odd NIMBY still has a moan but once gently reminded these guys are on active service because we are at war they wind their necks in.
Having previously lived in Sussex for 50 years and most of this in the Gatwick hinterland we found the commercial stuff there was far more noticeable, but not really a great problem either.
Is there a bit of a parallel with noise from first team games (ie a few hours once per fortnight on average) at the Amex annoying the natives? How would a local Albion fan feel about that?
One of the aspects to living in my part of the country is that we get an unofficial airshow most weekdays courtesy of the three RAF & USAF bases we have within a 30 mile radius. They are homes to Typhoons, Tornados and F15s (ie potentially as noisy as it gets) that routinely head out past our village out over the North Sea, returning later. Occasionally we get one or two planes being hooligans and come screaming through at roof top height but generally it is only background noise and you get used to it. Our pets seem to be able to ignore it. Most punters around here put up with it because these guys are normally training for Afghanistan or Libya plus the bases make a big contribution to the community and local economy. The RAF does occasional PR items in the media to explain why it needs to fly (!) even so the odd NIMBY still has a moan but once gently reminded these guys are on active service because we are at war they wind their necks in.
Having previously lived in Sussex for 50 years and most of this in the Gatwick hinterland we found the commercial stuff there was far more noticeable, but not really a great problem either.
