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Old 24th May 2003, 04:00
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Iain
 
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Don't Be Silly........

That departure is one more reason they need to convert the former Marine Corps air station at El Toro to a civilian airport. 5700 ft of runway mixed in with the GA is another.
Even if they started flying commercial flights out of El Toro (which is unlikely to happen for many reasons) there would be the same noise abatement procedures as there are at SNA, for exactly the same reasons; people do not like airplane noise. Heck there radio controls planes are lucky they do not have any!

The solution to the problem is Long Beach, perfect little airport which with some work will fill the need.

Just one question, I fly GA aircraft out of SNA, what is your qualms about flying with us? I can understand you do not like out bombing runs on you as we depart from 19L and you taxi back, but from our perspective things seem to run quite smoothly. Are we just something else to worry about, that in a perfect world you would rather not be there?
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