too many airplanes

[kalimba21.livejournal.com]

Tonight - Thursday, July 29, I went to Davis Sq. to see the outdoor screening of Vertigo.
During the 2 hour movie, there were at least 40-50 low flying planes overhead. Very difficult to focus on the movie.

Two other evenings this week planes passed over my house at least once every 2 minutes between 4-9pm.

I know they say it's wind dependent, but does anyone know if this is getting more frequent? I think I'll have to move if this is going to be the norm. It's pretty stressful to me and I don't think I can adapt.

I emailed and called in a complaint, but in the past, these haven't really done anything.

Comments

[ronhaha108.livejournal.com]

I'm in medford and the planes that fly over Davis fly over Medford first. The number of planes flying this path have been getting worse as of late and I think the complaint reporting has gotten worse as well.

Planes were flying over my house Monday night till past midnight and I couldn't sleep because of it. I called to complain and it felt like the guy was just trying to get me off the phone, took the report in under a minute and was off the phone. The speed he was asking questions didn't really give him time to write my answers. He asked if I wanted a report and I said yes -- still no report sent. You may say "Monday, that's not enough time for you to have it in hand" but then where's the one I asked for 2 weeks ago, last month, etc.

I was thinking of contacting Fox25 Undercover to see if the complaint reporting is accurate.. They really shouldn't be policing themselves. But truthfully, who really knows what they do with that information anyway, oh well, another complaint..

It's not fair to not have a choice in this, I bought my 2 family in Medford on a "not a through road" because it's quiet and I enjoy being so close to Davis, Cambridge and Boston. I bought in 2000 and there were hardly ever planes flying overhead and never this low. If it wasn't for the economy, the noise would be lowering the value of my house.

[cold-type.livejournal.com]

Somebody ought to sue. Airplanes should only fly over poor neighborhoods -- not Davis Square.

And if the lawsuit doesn't work, we should just shut down Logan. There are already perfectly fine airports in Rhode Island and New Hampshire. Why do we need one in Boston, too?

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

I think the complaints are a part of a lawsuit the city has brought against Massport, FYI.

I was serious when I said I'd reply to every airplane noise complaint with this flowchart

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/16889258@N03/3761578967/)

offtopic, kinda

[intuition-ist.livejournal.com]

when i lived in austin, the airport was still right in the city, and the nearby neighborhoods were all rented out to UT Austin students, who would sit on their porches drinking beer and having their conversation drowned out every 2-3 minutes (no lie, i visited there) by planes close enough to landing that you could see the details of the landing gear when they flew over the house. sounded a little like that crummy apartment (motel room?) near the El in Blues Brothers...

[squirrelitude]

Based on the frequency of posts to DSLJ about airplane noise, no, it seems random.

Keep a log to find out for sure.

[lfitzb.livejournal.com]

The flight patterns change every so often, so medford gets hit some months and others not.

there have been an increase in activity over our area, but nothing out of the ordinary. It is all cycled through.

hate to be a bit bitchy, but move if it's going to be so anxiety causing for you. teele square you can see the planes and how low, but I never hear anything that will wake anyone up at night.

[ronhaha108.livejournal.com]

isn't it nice to live in your self-righteous world? How would you like to buy a house for a specific reason (how quiet it is) and then have some authority do something that will adversely affect you and a number of communities without a public hearing...

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/05/08/citizens_sue_faa_over_air_traffic/

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

Seriously?
If I could afford to buy a house at all, I'd be so delirious with joy I don't think I'd notice the entire Air Force flying over it.

Re: I was serious when I said I'd reply to every airplane noise complaint with this flowchart

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

And so far, we already have the "Airplanes should only fly over poor people" comment, the "the city should sue" comment and the "welcome to an urban environment" comment (along with some butthurt, I'm sure)...and it's not even 10am!

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

How would you like to buy a house for a specific reason (how quiet it is)

Wow, because those sorts of things never happen except to people who are concerned with noise.

Re: I was serious when I said I'd reply to every airplane noise complaint with this flowchart

[emcicle.livejournal.com]

hee hee.

+1

[bombardiette.livejournal.com]

They're always flying over my house, day and night. But no one seems to care and it doesn't bother me. Of course, we're a poor neighborhood, so your strategy is working!

[bombardiette.livejournal.com]

If I could afford to buy a house in Davis Square, the Air Force and the Navy could buzz my house all night and I'd still be happy.

Re: I was serious when I said I'd reply to every airplane noise complaint with this flowchart

[bombardiette.livejournal.com]

I love you for this.

[oneagain.livejournal.com]

Are you suggesting folks who are upset over something should shut up and deal and never say anything about it? Businesses can do pretty much whatever they want regardless? If not, what are you saying exactly--or, more to the point, why?

[oneagain.livejournal.com]

How about if the air planes did something that you can relate to, since noise is not one of them. How about if they put a hole in your wall somehow? Would it be time to shut and deal then? Would *that* meet your specification about when it's ok to speak up? Tell, me, please; I await your mean-spirited sarcasm because it is oh so ever helpful.

Re: I was serious when I said I'd reply to every airplane noise complaint with this flowchart

[cheeseydreams.livejournal.com]

Yes!!

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

I'm saying that the people bitching about the airplane noise and their having bought the home because it was quiet
AREN'T SPESHUL SNOFLAKES.

[oneagain.livejournal.com]

Exactly where in her entry does she say that her situation does she insinuate that her situation is a SPESHUL SNOFLAKE? There is something that upset her about where she lives, she is not the only one, I expect she *knows* she is not the only one since there is a lawsuit going, so I am still wondering why you made the comment if not to punish her for speaking out. I am not trying to be obtuse, I genuinely do not understand the point of the comment.

[bombardiette.livejournal.com]

This just gave me a mental image of an airplane winging a baseball at my house in anger over my sarcasm. It's going to be a good weekend indeed.

But seriously? How about I understand that growing areas mean growing commerce, trade, and global transit and that means more airplanes, cars, trucks, and busses.

Everyone wants a vibrant, global community, as long as the process doesn't actually happen to them. It's amusing.

[ron_newman]

But perhaps there are things Massport could do to mitigate the problem, such as require planes to take off and land at a steeper angle?

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

LOLs at the people taking this seriously.

[grapefruiteater.livejournal.com]

I'm not a pilot or an aviation expert, but I've been on planes that have done that, and it's not a pleasant experience for the passengers. It struck me as dangerous at the time, but again, I can't verify that with knowledge or data.

Re: offtopic, kinda

[grapefruiteater.livejournal.com]

Welcome to eastern Queens/western Nassau. Not one, but TWO major airports. I remember reading an article, probably in Newsday, about one of the high school soccer teams in the area using the planes to their advantage--they didn't notice the noise, but opponents did and were thrown off by it. It's part of the charm of going to a Mets game. You can hear the planes if you watch the Mets on TV, even.