While the locals who will moan at anything are annoying - and there are plenty of them - we don't help ourselves much either. I'm in Lavant* most weekends and watch plenty of Goodwood-based aeroplanes (especially dark blue PA28s!) whose pilots obviously can't be @rsed with noise abatement. I grew up in Lavant and people know I fly, so i'm permanently getting moaned at - and to be honest most of the time i've got to agree.
It's a bit more understandable if you're arriving from elsewhere (less so when you're departing as the ops desk give you a circuit chart). If you're local it's just lazy.
Sorry, rant over now. I just got moaned at again this afternoon...
* for the non-locals it's a village on short final for Goodwood's Rwy 14. If you're taking off on 32 you're supposed to turn to avoid it.