Thanks for the explanation Nautilus, I personally think most of the ATC people do the best they can but it's a crap system with, obviously, too much seperation and it's only going to get worse as traffic continues to increase. Other airports around the world handle far more traffic with 2 runways with their own unique problems as well eg terrain, airspace etc.
Something other than WAC and/or AA sticking their heads in the sand and saying we've reached capacity, needs to be done.
BTW, I think noise wise nothing competes with a droning, climbing at 160IAS turboprop.