"I'm not sure it's appropriate to have all these additional overflights in a big city. It seems like it would be more appropriate for a remote location,"
I have to agree with him there. Far better that any training accidents happen over open desert.
FWIW, I was raised on Marine Corps airbases, I love the sound of jets.
I have to agree with him there. Far better that any training accidents happen over open desert.
When training for an air show, you want to practice around and over the city where the show is taking place. You need to learn where power lines are, where the tall buildings are, where the landmarks are that mark your turning points and boundaries of the air show. You also need to learn safe ejection places and a host of other concerns that can only be learned by flying above the site of the show.
All the citizens are asked to endure is "a little noise". Wow, what an enormous sacrifice.
Gee, I wonder why people buy houses in a flight path?
When they buy them, the lower price is more important than the noise. After they get the benefit of a lower price, it is to their benefit to get the flight path moved, so they get the benefit of property value increase.
That is why Air Bases should be large enough so the land includes both the runways and much of the flight path associated with the runway.
When D-M opened it was 45 miles outside of town in open desert. The city has encroached on the safety zones and grown right up tight to the base and surrounded it. The real tough training of the pilots takes place at the Goldwater Range by Yuma, touch-n-gos take place for the most part at Libby Army Airfield at Ft. Huachuca 75 miles distant. It should also be noted these same moonbats don't complain one wit about the commercial aircraft coming in or leaving Tucson International Airport using nearly identical air corridors.