Palomar Airport: Quiet Aircraft, Part VIII, 241

Came upon an interesting YouTube video today. An example of the haves and have-nots.

Citizens for a Friendly Airport (see C4fa.org) is fighting the county and Carlsbad to minimize noise, traffic, and pollution resulting from expanding McClellan-Palomar Airport.

Meanwhile corporate aircraft operators, who often fly out of Palomar, are fighting noise too. Not for you. For themselves inside the aircraft. See “The Super-Quiet Perk for Private Jets” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XzYFc-Ne9g.

According to the YouTube video, aircraft can be retrofitted with insulation that reduces interior aircraft cabin noise from 65 decibels to 47 decibels. As the video notes, the reduction allows conversation between two adults to happen 8 - 16 feet apart instead of 1 - 2 feet apart. In the meantime, the FAA says that a 65-decibel level is just fine for you on the ground.

Moreover, even the FAA’s 65-decibel level is not a real number. The FAA calculates noise by 24-hour averages. So if aircraft fly over your house at 80 decibels all day and with only a few flights at night, the FAA tells you that your noise level is far below 50 decibels.

Tired of Palomar noise, which will only get louder and more frequent when Palomar extends its runway from 4900-feet to up to 5700-feet? Donate to C4fa’s efforts at C4fa.org. And if you want to see how your Carlsbad city council has given up protecting you, attend tonight’s (Tuesday, May 7) council meeting. The council will again surrender its zoning powers to limit Palomar growth, as it did at its improper Brown Act-violating Closed Session on March 27, 2019. Call me the Great Kreskin (al la the Great Johnny Carson, from a time when comedians were comedians).