A & C,
I knew you had just forgotten us!
But my serious point is that a typical microlight trainer - ie C42 or Eurostar - is a lot lot quieter than a Cessna 150.
As my wife said when she heard a Cessna doing power checks outside our house: do we have to have that sort of aircraft on our airfield?
Yet there is a solution.
Hush kits are approved and fitted on Cessnas in Germany, and we are all in EASA-land now.
So why aren't we fitting them here?
The idea that Cessnas are making no more noise than they ever did doesn't apply today, when airports are forcing jet operators to use ever quieter types, industry cannot dump waste as it used to, cars cannot pollute as much as they did.
But GA?
We think we have a god-granted right to continue in the same old ways?
Funnily enough, I don't think most pilots think that way. But from the outside, we must appear a bunch of arrogant tossers.
And, yes, noise certificates have helped us here at Strathaven. Local council were quite impressed, to put it frankly.