Noise Complaints! here we go again.....

[Mike]

*Sigh*

Why oh why?!?
VNY has been there for 80 years! 80 YEARS!!!!

Everybody who has had a house before there was an airport is long dead. Yet people are still surprised that there is airplane flying around the airport they JUST MOVED RIGHT NEXT TO !!!! 


L.A. launches online airport noise complaint system
Daily News Wire Services
Updated: 07/01/2009 09:31:37 AM PDT


The Los Angeles city agency that manages LAX and two other airports today unveiled a new online noise complaint system today for residents living near the facilities.

Los Angeles World Airports, which manages LAX, Ontario International and Van Nuys airports, will oversee the system, known as WebTrak.

It will allow users to identify loud airplanes flying in or out of the three airports and report them to LAWA on the organization's Web site.

Using the system, the public will be able to identify loud airplanes by aircraft type, altitude, flight number and both the originating and destination airports, according to LAWA. Users can then report loud airplanes using an online complaint form.

"The new and improved features of our WebTrak system provide the public with additional user-friendly tools to understand how aircraft operate in the airspace and the noise from those operations," said Robert Freeman, LAWA's Environmental Services Division Manager.

"It demonstrates LAWA's continuing commitment to provide residents in neighboring communities with the means to quickly identify and report aircraft operations that cause them concern."

All flight information on the system will be delayed by 30 minutes out of security concerns, according to LAWA.

Users can access the system at www.lawa.org by clicking on the "Noise Management" link on the left hand side of the page.

[Oddball]

not on the same scale but we are getting a house built near the end of our 'strip.  So shall see what happens when the "neighbours" move in and find us flying.

[Mike]

Mayeb we should send this cartoon to the newspaper!

[Oddball]

It was the strip about getting the planes banned that I liked was going to use it for the end slide of a enviromental study presentation I had to do for college..............but could not find it in time.

[Chopper Doc]

I get a perverse smile every time I hear some asshat gripe about helicopter noise.  I like to agree, and then tell them that I think those helicopters should be banned and we'll find another way to do airborne police patrolling, longline rescue, medevac, or interface firefighting.

Anybody stupid enough to complain about helicopter noise is stupid enough to die without it.

[Mike]

Well said, Doc. I'm gonna use that line next time!
Have seen the stip posted under "Birdseye View" on our homepage?
you have to scroll down past the trivia:
http://www.chickenwingscomics.com/birdseyeview.php is the link so you don't have to look too long.
...says exactly what you just said.

I am also reminded of this one.
(is this the one you were talking about, Odd?)

[Oddball]

Think it was a three panel strip from either the first or second book. I remember the second panel had a a nurse asying to the patient that his transplant was delayed the first was some thing about no lobster being available. could fid it but the first two books are MIA some where 

[G-man]

This one...

[Mike]

I think he means this one:

[Oddball]

Thats the one Mike