Quiet pattern planes

[Michael H Lance]

Yep, I agree with you Matt.  I bet most of us are asked quite often how
we can tell what is happening when we can't hear the engine.  No
response I have come up with seems to get through to sport flyers.  I
have invited these pilots to come to local Pattern meets (a few have)
and hope they realize that when the air isn't full of sport planes there
is no real problem in hearing our engines.
 
Matt, you are certainly on the the correct tack in speaking to what is
available over the counter.  Few sport flyers will invest a couple
hundred bucks in being quiet because they have NO incentive to do so.
Public fields are powerless to impose a limit BUT private clubs
certainly could start to set the bar with enforced limits.
 
Mike Lance
NSRCA 659
AMA 4498
 
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Yea, yea. I was there at the inception of "QUIET" too. And cut my teeth
on it as well

What I'm saying is that
with the exception of a couple gliders and a few electrics, hardly
anyone else is trying to go real quiet. And the pattern community has
been preaching it and livimg it for 15+ years now. 

The message isn't getting through to the sport flier especially when he
shows up with the biggest, baddest noise box around. How can he do that?
Well, it's available, thats how. To belabor the obvious, just look in
any magazine, including the AMA's own. The AD $ pay their bills on one
hand, and cause their demise of their (our) flying fields on the other.
Go figure!!



Matt Kebabjian



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Date:4/19/2003 12:50:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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I'm proud to be part of the pattern community that led the way to
quiet high performance aerobatics.  The benefits of quiet are difficult
to quantify, but I think there are many.
Later,   Ron  Lockhart




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In a message dated 4/18/2003 4:39:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
Rcmaster199 at aol.com writes:




Folks, I think we may have been duped on this noise thing. I love my
stealthy pattern plane, but nobody else does. unless I'm flying alone,
nobody else cares whetehr I hear my plane or not!

!

  Matt
  
  I don't think we have been "duped" on having quiet planes. There was a
time in my life that hearing screaming engines was a joy , however , I
now much more prefer the   lower volume of our planes . To me , the tone
of a muffled four stroke at full throttle is the sweetest sound in our
hobby . 

I agree that nobody else cares whether or not I can hear my plane . On
the other hand , should noise become an issue with the nieghbors around
our field , everyone would care whether or not I could hear my plane.

Robert Gainey
 
 
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