Cort, you're a person after my own heart.
Unfortunately you idea will probably fall of deaf ears. The 2 "contributors" to this thread have clearly displayed their desire not to enter into ANY form of replying or discussion. This is what they do. Stir things up and slink away............as SLF3 says, they attract zealots. IHMO, they don't want to find answers that are mutually beneficial to all, they just want their own way.
As a big recognition of on of our PPrune brothers Brimstone, he pointed out some facts regarding our ATC operating procedures that wouldn't have been instigated without taking noise into account. Procedures like contiunous descent approaches, vector restrictions on departing aircraft, runway alternation, preferential runways etc are all as a direct result from an attempt to minimise noise impact. And these procedures aren't restrictive or intrusive on air traffic movements. They came about from intelligent apprasial and thought.