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Parafield Flight Training noise from a residential backyard - for a better appreciation, visit Morning Gory:

 
 
Experience what was occasional, now an every fine day event: typical flight training operations, running approximately 30 overflights per hour, often 3 per minute, over your strictly Residential 1 zoned neighbourhood and family home.

 

Here are about 54 recorded overflights from a residential property, within a period less than two hours. Each file’s creation time serves as a reasonable time stamp. The recorded location is about 100 to 300 metres away from the main circuit training path. The noise under the aircraft is much more intense. Each overpass goes over about 20,000 homes. During peak operations vast residential areas are exposed to this continuous noise for 10 to 14 hours, 7:30AM to 11PM. They fly so low one has no privacy in their own yard. It should be noted that in this sample, all aircraft are all coasting down returning to the airstrip. Windows normally open are kept shut in Summer, the wretched annoying drone permeates through the roof, and resonates within double brick homes. With opposite prevailing winds, all these aircraft would be powering upwards, the noise would be 20 to 30 decibels louder, where it is felt through floorboards!!
 
This has been going on since the early 1990s, most homes currently affected were built decades before the 1990s. The State Seat of Ramsay, carrying our current Premier Rann, has Parafield Airport in the middle of it. The Premier’s Office still does not publicly acknowledge there is a problem, they still refuse to measure it. The Federal Govt helps the airport grow this greed riven rot. Parafield airport (leased via Adelaide Airport Limited) and its operators know as long as their pollution is not measured, and as long as there is no discernment between what aviation is essential or not, nothing will change. They are all in cohorts with the Federal DOT – hopefully the new Govt looks into this.
 
 
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  • A Warbird example - Spitfire pass UK.asx - on Sep 7, 2008 8:20 PM by Stop Parafield Air Noise Endless Unneccessary Flight Training (version 1)
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Stop Parafield Air Noise Endless Unneccessary Flight Training - Sep 7, 2008 8:29 PM

The attachment above is an example of what 'Historic Recreational flying' entails - encouraged as fun, but its not fun if one's continuously rattled living under it. Warning, contains explicit language near end.
Parafield ‘Warbirds’ have done this over homes, as retaliation towards those opposed to unessential aviation noise. The sudden noise easily exceeds 90-100 decibels, could trigger strokes or heart attacks.