1y ago

An "airport neighbourhood" where people can store their planes in their yard and taxi directly to the runway

Location on a map: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=42.1486108&mlon=-88.5628734&zoom=17#map=17/42.14861/-88.56287

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The smell and noise would be unbearable.
- It's obviously for plane nerds that won't mind.
- Depends, looks like small planes, and even if 10 come and go everyday you would quickly stop hearing them at all (the brain is very good at ignoring useless stimuli)
  
  Studies to highway and airport neighbourhoods say otherwise.
  
  I work at an airport. Cessnas and other small prop planes are perfectly fine and I think they are quieter than a harley for example. I bet those planes are the vast majority of planes flown in that pic of the neighborhood.
  Once you put jets on things it can get annoying. Even small business jets are pretty loud for their size, not to mention commercial airliners coming and going.
  
  As someone who lives near a highway I disagree. Fucking muscle cars and jake brakes.
  
  Oh your brain processes those sounds for sure, but it mostly filters them out so, unless there is an unexpected sound, you don't pay attention to them
  
  No, exactly this was disproven again and again the last few years. The unconscious sounds add to the stress level too, makes you sleep worse, etc.
  Ok, may be different with only every hour or so. The studies are usually with constant traffic noise (like neighbourhood to airports, main roads).
  
  Not sure if there is a misunderstanding but I'm agreeing with you
  When I say the brain processes it, it means it does take some work and energy, although it might not bring it up to your conscious perception for you to react
  
  At the end of my in laws small 8mx8m garden is a freight train line, and honestly, you just don't hear it anymore once you're used to it.
  
  Works for my manager too
- See, there are some weird types like me who actually like the smell of 100LL, and don't mind plane noise. I'd live there. But yeah, it's definitely not for everyone.
  
  You might mind the health effects of breathing so much of it in on a regular basis
- Small airports like these really don't smell like much. Sure: the fueling area, hangers, and maintenance shops have a smell, but it's non existent as soon as you're 50 feet away from them.
  What is fucked up is how much leaded fuel gets dumped on the ground. Part of the pre-flight check for planes is taking a sample of gas from the lowest point in the tanks (the "sump") to make sure there's no water in it. It's usually done with a tool like this one. A lot of pilots just toss the fuel sample on the ground rather than "dispose" of it properly.

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