That'd be the 405 and it is just a stone's throw from the runway threshold. Interstate 5 is a few exits north on the 55. One of our resident pilots may be able to verify this but, the approach from the North is nice and easy (grew up in Anaheim Hills, right underneath it), but the takeoff is a quick jump up to a couple-a-three thousand feet or so, then a quick back-off on the throttle and a few minutes just holding altitude until you get out over the Pacific where you can pour on the coal and climb to cruising altitude for your flight.
All of that machination is just to appease the snot-nosed boys and girls in Newport Beach who insisted on expanding their community Northward and encroach upon the airport whereupon, in classic upper-class-snobbery-hacking-up-a-hairball fashion, they proceded to snort, howl and rant like a tornado full of bowling balls about the intolerable noise from the aircraft; none of which at any time exceded the racket that they, themselves, produced in their nursery-school tantrums.
Maybe we should change the flight path to go over your house so that you can "proceed to snort, howl and rant like a tornado full of bowling balls about the intolerable noise from the aircraft; none of which at any time exceded the racket that they, themselves, produced in their nursery-school tantrums"
Lol you have a great writing skill.
I think, IIRC, there is also noise abatement on takeoff there which I have heard pilots hate.
The problem in Newport is you have an airport that has been there for a long time (not sure how long) and you have the most spectacular beach & bay living only surpassed by Laguna Beach IMHO. A conundrum to say the least.