I find your comments interesting rather than boring especially the part about
I can walk around an airplane and tell by looking if the plane has any chance of passing a test to see if it still meets what it was certified to noisewise. Let me look at the maintenance records and I can tell a lot more.
What exactly are you looking for during the walkaround?
Noise is becoming a right P.I.T.A. the days when we were able to say we are
Stage 3 are long gone. We are now getting forced to do aerial gymnastics to avoid noise monitors with takeoff procedures based on the location of the monitor rather than normal procedures.
I wish that the airline industry was as powerful as the noise lobbyists, the industry has achieved wonders in the last 20 years, has any other part of the transport industry achieved so much ?.
Mutt. <img src="smile.gif" border="0">