> Maybe we should change the flight path to go over your house...
Nice try. Wrong analogy.
Look, let's get one thing straight: if I want it quiet, I'll buy where it's quiet, NOT under an approach or departure path serving a major airport. If I want THAT house, and THAT house IS under a flight path, I will either take a pass on THAT house, or LIVE IN PEACE with the occasional engine noise accepting of the fact that it is part of the price I am paying to have THAT house. This is how normal, well-adjusted people behave.
That ISN'T what has been happening with John Wayne airport in Newport Beach.
The airport did not, at any time, alter their flight paths to pass over more Newport Beach rooftops, but, in a questionable move, more NB rooftops have, over the years, been built right underneath the pre-existing flight paths as NB steadily marched northward, over the hills toward the airport. In a series of even MORE questionable moves, people paid lots of money to live under those expensive NB rooftops right underneath those pre-existing flight paths. Then, in a move that can only be explained by clinical psychology, the people who paid the money to live under those expensive NB rooftops under those pre-existing flight paths began to complain about the situation that THEY PUT THEMSELVES INTO.
They did this to THEMSELVES; THEY are the ones responsible for their situation, NOT the airport, or the airlines or the pilots, or any other third party. THE HOMEOWNERS did this to themselves.
People who want a quiet, undisturbed existence should NOT buy homes under (or near) airport approach and departure paths. Ya THINK?? I don't care what they paid for their homes, if they're right underneath the departure path of a major airport runway, they ought well have know that they were in for some racket, and they ought well have done some serious introspection as to how they would live with the noise BEFORE THEY BOUGHT THE HOUSE. But to go ahead and close escrow and then complain about the din later is borderline insanity; like buying a house on a flood plain then being apoplectic when the basement fills up with water in March.
Sorry. Life's rough. They can live with it or move but, either way they need to SHUT UP.
Ya know, John Wayne didn't start out as a major airport, serving 10 million passengers a year. It was general aviation. Quieter. So to be fair, maybe John Wayne should have remained general aviation. YA THINK?