MF,
Impressed by your pro-active stance and decided to email Stephanie as well.
Mailed the following.
Dear Stephanie,
I was pointed to your email address by a fellow member of the PPRuNe forum.
It is great to see that you are addressing this issue and I hope you will
manage to highlight it in the balanced manner we have come to expect from
the Beeb.
I, like many other aviators, would like our planes to be a bit less loud but
this is not as easy to achieve as would appear at face value. There are a
number of technical and regulatory issues which are difficult to negotiate.
As we are aware that non-aviators do not have the benefit of flying through
the surly skies and encounter noise generated by others we try to avoid
overflying inhabited areas and give them a wide berth wherever possible. A
lot of airfields have noise abatement procedures and do not take friendly to
anyone upsetting the neighbours!
It may well be easier to discuss the various angles of this complex issue
either over the telephone or in person. If the latter is preferred it may
well be possible to arrange for you or anyone associated with this program
to have a go with one of us.
May be it demonstrates why we are so keen on flying and put up with the less
nice bits!
I hope you find this information helpful.
After all, I would be happilly flying without the noise.
May be things like this will help to get things moving in the right direction.
FD