[NSRCA-discussion] Noise - Overfly - and Different Aerobatic Model Types

[dwaynenancy]

Ask the flyers at RC World in Orlando about what is happening to them 
and their field now.  Dwayne

Bob Richards wrote:

> Dean,
>  
> Right on point. I've been involved with a flying field lost due to 
> noise, and was also involved in a successful fight to keep a field 
> open after neighbor's complaints. Better to be reasonably quiet in the 
> first place. Once you have upset the neighbors to the point that they 
> start to complain, their "threshold of pain" becomes much lower. Once 
> they have made up their minds they don't like you, they probably never 
> will like you again, regardless of what you do.
>  
> The one - maybe the only - big negative that I see with IMAC is the 
> noise level along with the noise footprint.  But, you know, 20 years 
> ago you could say the same thing about pattern. I just hope the guys 
> in IMAC (and giant scale in general) can learn from the mistakes made 
> in pattern --  BEFORE flying fields are lost for both camps!
>  
> Bob R.
>
>
> */Dean Pappas <d.pappas at kodeos.com>/* / wrote:/
> / /
>
>     / /
>     /Hi Dave,
>     What I hope we are saying here, is that being smart and making our
>     aerobatic planes quiet is good for the continued survival of both
>     events. Of course, if flyers with large, loud, and far-away 40%
>     planes lose all our practice fields and practice sites ...
>
>     This is just how the West Windsor contest in Jersey became a
>     "first annual and only ever" event.
>     Sadly, I have to say that two or three IMACers joined the club,
>     and within a few months, we had no Pattern Contest, a 6:00 P.M.
>     weekday curfew on wet power, and neighbors who are now very aware
>     of our existence. Being noticed ain't always a good thing! Smart
>     noise abatement programs are aimed at preventing that first
>     complaint. Once it happens, it's almost too late.
>     ............................../
>
> / /
> / /
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