PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Those affected by noise from airfields
View Single Post
Old 2nd Dec 2014, 19:06
  #4 (permalink)  
RatherBeFlying
 
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Toronto
Posts: 2,561
Received 41 Likes on 20 Posts
A lot of glider clubs have this problem, especially from people who get sold a house in February under a takeoff path that the estate agent failed to bring to the buyer's attention

There's a country estate subdivision recently put up a couple miles away that regularly complains when the towplane comes within a couple miles. The rural township has been subsumed into a metropolitan area and the city staff have no idea what to do

It has been made clear to the City that the airport is under federal jurisdiction, but they try to pester about the campers and septic tank capacity, but the club was established some 60 years ago and two municipalities before which means records are nonexistent - which doesn't stop the club from claiming grandfathering from historic use.

The feds are talking about local consultation for airport after a new airport was established West of Edmonton Alberta in a riding full of voters for the ruling party. The downtown airport leases were expropriated and the new airport was established as there's a substantial number of operators who want nothing to do with the Edmonton Airport Authority.
RatherBeFlying is offline