Noise complaints - not just GA

That’s the equivalent of one person making about 18 calls every day of the year.

Wow! Someone has way too much time on his hands!
 
mscard88 said:
Ya gonna fill the rest of us in? o_O
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Hyperacusis (also spelled hyperacousis) is a health condition characterized by an increased sensitivity to certain frequency and volume ranges of sound (a collapsed tolerance to usual environmental sound).
 
Ahh like attending too many rock concerts and/or flying aeroplanes for a long time...... :eek::(
 
Easy solution. Stop landing big jets and just land small airplanes. Good luck implementing that...
 
That’s the equivalent of one person making about 18 calls every day of the year.
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I love what numbers sometimes reveal.
6500/yr = almost 18 calls per day.
If averaged over every day of the year.
That is Monday to Friday plus Sat and Sunday, 18 calls each of the 7 days in every week for the full year.
If the person ever sleeps (I know it is probably difficult) but that leaves about 16 hours per day to make those 18 calls. So, close to once per hour...but a little more. Every day of the year (More, if they skip days).

If the person actually works, then we only have maybe 6 hours of free time per day (8hr workday plus 1 hr lunch, 1 hr commute). So if the person works and sleeps like the average person, they made those calls in their 6 hours of free time every day or one call every 20 minutes during all of their non-sleeping, non-working hours in that year. (I have omitted holidays and weekends, I know. But other activities like showering, going out with friends, talking with real people on the phone would probably cut into available free time to that extent so I'd consider that a wash).

When I was 11, (before callerID) and despite my best efforts, I did not even come close to calling (and hanging up on) 'that girl' in my town nearly that much.
I mean. That is a dang lot of calls!
 
steingar said:
Easy solution. Stop landing big jets and just land small airplanes. Good luck implementing that...
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Or, this guy could move to a place that isn't on the approach / departure path to an airport. Seriously, people have too much time on their hands. When I first started flying at KOSU we used to get a lot of calls from ****ed off residents of new homes near the airport who didn't like airport noise. There's a giant aerial overhead photo in the flight school that shows the airport as it existed sometime in the 40's, 50's, or 60's… when it was surrounded by farm fields.

If you buy a home next to an airport and then complain about airplanes, you're an idiot.
 
I think he should start calling Mariott front desks asking to be connected to ESPN micro-starlets. LOL
 
N659HB said:
lol. Not quite. It's a condition where certain sounds make one physically ill, or elicit extremely negative reactions.
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Certain sounds like the ones coming from Nelly, Pink or other useless utterly creatures on this Earth? :D


Now off to listen to Stevie tell me all about the rain down here in Texas:
 
Coloradokevin said:
Or, this guy could move to a place that isn't on the approach / departure path to an airport. Seriously, people have too much time on their hands. When I first started flying at KOSU we used to get a lot of calls from ****ed off residents of new homes near the airport who didn't like airport noise. There's a giant aerial overhead photo in the flight school that shows the airport as it existed sometime in the 40's, 50's, or 60's… when it was surrounded by farm fields.

If you buy a home next to an airport and then complain about airplanes, you're an idiot.
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I enjoy the please fly quietly sign as you taxi towards 09. I worked down the street from kosu and I hear customers complain about it all the time. I don't tell them I'm part of the problem ha.
 
Everyone's assuming he's calling to complain. He could be submitting on line complaints.
If you happen to fall on the nerd end of the spectrum, it's not all that hard to automate the complaint process. Grab a decibel meter that feeds into your computer. Then write a script to autofill in the form every time noise passes a trigger value and you too can be submitting 6500 complaints a year!

When I was looking up whether you can submit complains online, I noticed this cool site: http://webtrak5.bksv.com/dca
Takes a little while to load but shows live traffic along with noise levels at various places. Assuming there numbers are accurate, it looks like the sound level jumps ~20dB when a plane flys overhead at 1000-2000 feet.
 
Let'sgoflying! said:
So if the person works and sleeps like the average person
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Nah... this is some old, lonely, mean as a snake, anti-social, unemployed, ****ole with on friends and nothing else to do... I'm sure you'll find that he/she spends her spare time (that not complaining about the airport) to taking pictures of garbage cans in her subdivision and forwarding them to the HOA...
 
Criitter7 said:
I enjoy the please fly quietly sign as you taxi towards 09. I worked down the street from kosu and I hear customers complain about it all the time. I don't tell them I'm part of the problem ha.
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Lol. I'm sure they still have that aerial photo on the wall there somewhere... An airport was there LONG before anything other than farms existed in the vicinity.

Personally, I like seeing planes fly over. At worst it sometimes makes me sad that I'm not flying at that moment! I do miss KOSU in many ways, it was a fun airport to fly out of. I haven't flown out of there in many years, but I have a high school friend who bases an Arrow there now... Planning to fly with him next time I'm back in Ohio to see family.
 
"Airport officials say they are working with residents to address the noise."

"Soooo Mr/Miss Complainer....this airport was built June 16, 1941. I have a picture here. Could you please point out your house?"
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We have become a nation which rewards the incredibly stupid.
 
Timbeck2 said:
"Airport officials say they are working with residents to address the noise."

"Soooo Mr/Miss Complainer....this airport was built June 16, 1941. I have a picture here. Where is your house?"
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That argument never seems to work...
 
FlySince9 said:
Nah... this is some old, lonely, mean as a snake, anti-social, unemployed, ****ole with on friends and nothing else to do... I'm sure you'll find that he/she spends her spare time (that not complaining about the airport) to taking pictures of garbage cans in her subdivision and forwarding them to the HOA...
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Just to point out that the flight path to DCA comes down the river starting just inside the Beltway. Arrivals from the North typically come over Foxhall and the Palisades. It's over some of the highest priced real estate in the region.....
 
Timbeck2 said:
We have become a nation which rewards the incredibly stupid.
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We have become a nation that rewards people who yell loud, are bullies and/or are willing to do whatever it takes to achieve their goals. Hence:image.jpeg
 
FlySince9 said:
Nah... this is some old, lonely, mean as a snake, anti-social, unemployed, ****ole with on friends and nothing else to do... I'm sure you'll find that he/she spends her spare time (that not complaining about the airport) to taking pictures of garbage cans in her subdivision and forwarding them to the HOA...
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Could very well also be a soccer mom with nothing to do but complain. More things get changed in this country based on soccer moms' complaints than anything else. Scary.
 
BigBadLou said:
Could very well also be a soccer mom with nothing to do but complain. More things get changed in this country based on soccer moms' complaints than anything else. Scary.
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I wish more soccer moms would complain about fatties.
 
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