Posted on Jun 5, 2015
Colorado Springs residents sound off about noise from Air Force Academy training flights
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This article kind of rubs a nerve with me. I'm sure if we do some background and research, I'm just guessing here no fact finding as of yet. I'll almost bet though the AFA was there long before the housing subdivisions were built.
With that said, hmmm moving into the neighborhood I might have oh checked out what that Air Base thingy place might be for and what they do and maybe not moved in.
What do these people think that move around installations nationwide? I know when I was in the Springs in Artillery you could damn well be rest assured you would hear our rounds. Get DIV Arty involved and you would have thought CO was under attack.
Are we supposed to train service members in war situations with silencers, pretend use of items, Magic Wands or what?
Maybe I'm off mark here and I'm sure folks on RP will let me know, but if I lived there I would be pleased to see and hear them training to do their job.
Hell move the AFA here to Salt Lake City and I'll by a house near your flight path. Those little Cessna's don't make as near as much noise as the 747's and C141's that use a flight pattern over my house now and I'd be happy to see them out training every day.
With that said, hmmm moving into the neighborhood I might have oh checked out what that Air Base thingy place might be for and what they do and maybe not moved in.
What do these people think that move around installations nationwide? I know when I was in the Springs in Artillery you could damn well be rest assured you would hear our rounds. Get DIV Arty involved and you would have thought CO was under attack.
Are we supposed to train service members in war situations with silencers, pretend use of items, Magic Wands or what?
Maybe I'm off mark here and I'm sure folks on RP will let me know, but if I lived there I would be pleased to see and hear them training to do their job.
Hell move the AFA here to Salt Lake City and I'll by a house near your flight path. Those little Cessna's don't make as near as much noise as the 747's and C141's that use a flight pattern over my house now and I'd be happy to see them out training every day.
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We had the same problem in Tucson in the '60s. When Davis-Monthan AFB was built it was out in the middle of the desert. Then town moved up to the wire, and residents complained about the noise from the jets taking off.
The Base instituted noise abatement procedures that limited power on takeoffs - and an F-4 that got behind the power curve dropped into a 7-11. The locals then proceeded to throw rocks at the base fire fighters that responded to put the flames out.
The early '70s were a strange time in this country.
The Base instituted noise abatement procedures that limited power on takeoffs - and an F-4 that got behind the power curve dropped into a 7-11. The locals then proceeded to throw rocks at the base fire fighters that responded to put the flames out.
The early '70s were a strange time in this country.
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TSgt David L.
Every installation has had this issue. The rub is that the base traditionally has been there longer than the houses that encroached on the base. NOT the other way around. So how do residents feel butt hurt when the base that was there when they bought their house to start off with makes noise.
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TSgt David L.
Capt Seid Waddell, you got that right. The very definition of crazy is repeatedly doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different outcome. And they keep moving in and wanting the aircraft to go away. They would move under high tension wires and want the stupid power lines moved...
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Capt Seid Waddell
TSgt David LaPointe, "They would move under high tension wires and want the stupid power lines moved..."
They do that too...
They do that too...
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I live in the same neighborhood...but, I have lived on bases with real airplanes...this is nothing at all.
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Be like WHAT the river behind my house has Gators oh hell NO DNR do something. HAHAHAHA
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