I love where I live

[wickedpilot]

My apartment is underneath (well, not directly but in close vicinity) the ILS approach path for 20L at a "reliever aiport" for another biggie airport in the southeast.

No major jetliners are whistling overhead for an extreme rush but I love taking that nightly walk to check the mail and seeing...and hearing a G5, Falcon, Citation etc. blast off into the skyways.

Any of you live close enough to an airport to "smell the fumes" for lack a better phrase?
Or better yet, any of you live close and get annoyed/botherd by the noise?

 

[Dominicinco]

I live right under the flight path of planes landing at LGA in Flushing Queens, NYC. There are alot of Airliners like Delta, ATA, USAir, United, Song etc. and also some turboprops. They usually land at a certain time in the morning or evening so you know if you hear one coming there are more right behind it for a few hours or so. Cant really say I can smell the fumes. I can see them retract their landing gear though. Noise is tolerable since watching them turn into base is worth it.

 

[greyhound]

Oh yes!

Grew up right under the approach path for 25L and 25R at Lax.
If you ever did a sidestep to 25L from 25R (Rare) you began the manuever right over my house.( 600ft I believe)
During rainy days and LAX was departing east. All the car alarms would sound when the heavies were taking off.
It was actually pretty cool growing up there!

 

[Citationkid]

I love where I live to. On a residential airport with about 15 other pilots. Sadly all the neighbors are always fighting and sueing each other, but you guys don't care about that. Where I live is great for getting rides in every thing from Stearmans to 210's.

 

[doh]

I love where I live! I live right on the approach path of my boat! Don't get me wrong, I love watching take offs and landings, I watch and participate in them 15 days a month. When I'm at home though, I love taking off and landing grouper, snook, and kings! I also love spending week ends on the boat with my wife! It is called "living the dream!"

 

[crash-proof]

Right next to Fort Laud Executive...

 

[nealw]

You must live in Chambodia.

 

[T-Gates]

You must live in Chambodia.

Ha! Too funny... Haven't heard that in awhile....

I grew up under the approach to PDK too... Always fun to sit outside and watch all the biz-jets on a Friday afternoon.

--T

 

[ibaflyer]

I love where I live also. I am about four blocks from our local airport. I can be there in about 1 minute if I drive and about 5 minutes if I walk really fast. I can sit on my deck and listen to the corporate planes comming home, students flying in the pattern and the occasional Guard helo doing night landings.

Not much better than sitting outside on a nice summer night, smoking a cigar, drinking scotch and just listening to all of the planes.

 

[skyking1976]

I used to live 1 mile south of DYMON Outer Marker for DEN's 35L and just west of a local airpark. I had daily airshows!

 

[bart]

My house is directly under the approach path for 2R of the same well-known reliever airport in the Southeast.

 

[FL000]

Chambodia...hilarious. I've been here most of my life and hadn't heard that one yet.

I like going to the patio at 57th around sunset to have and adult beverage and watch the suits leaving. Downwind is good too if you can get a table on the porch.

 

[SkyWestCRJPilot]

I was at FlighSafety in Vero Beach for six months and I lived east of the airport about a mile between the two runways. I hated that location. I hated getting woken up every morning by airplanes. I've since vowed never to live close enough to an airport that I can hear the airplanes. I'll fly 'em but I don't want to hear them, especially when I'm asleep.

 

[ShawnC]

I was at FlighSafety in Vero Beach for six months and I lived east of the airport about a mile between the two runways. I hated that location. I hated getting woken up every morning by airplanes. I've since vowed never to live close enough to an airport that I can hear the airplanes. I'll fly 'em but I don't want to hear them, especially when I'm asleep.

Agreed. I live close enough that I can see them everyday, but far enough that they are just a gentle rumble by the time they hit my house.

 

[wingnutt]

never lived on/near airport, this is more how i grew up...

>>>Those of you who didn't grow up in a small town will be in disbelief... but trust me every one of these are true.

>>>1) You can name everyone you graduated with.

>>>2) You know what 4-H is.

>>>3) You went to parties at a pasture, barn, gravel pit, or in the middle of a dirt road. On Monday you could always tell who was at the party because of the scratches on their legs from running through the woods when the party was busted, (see #6. )

>>>4) You used to "drag" main.

>>>5) You said the "F" word and your parents knew within the hour.

>>>6) You scheduled parties around the schedule of different police officers, since you know which ones would bust you and which ones wouldn't.

>>>7) You could never buy cigarettes because all the store clerks knew how old you were (and if you were old enough they'd tell your parents anyhow).

>>>8) When you did find somebody old enough and brave enough to buy cigarettes, you still had to go out into the country and drive on back roads to smoke them.

>>>9) You knew which section of the ditch to find the beer your buyer dropped off.

>>>10) It was cool to date somebody from the neighboring town.

>>>11) The whole school went to the same party after graduation

>>>12) You don't give directions by street names or directions by

>>>references. Turn by Nelson's house, go 2 blocks east to Anderson's, and it's four houses left of the track field.

>>>13) The golf course had only 9 holes.

>>>14) You can't help but date a friend's ex-boyfriend/girlfriend.

>>>15) Your car stays filthy because of the dirt roads and you will never own a dark vehicle for this reason.

>>>16) The town next to you is considered "trashy" or "snooty", but is actually just like your town.

>>>17) You refer anyone with a house newer then 1980 as the "rich people"

>>>18) The people in the "big city" dress funny then you pick up the trend 2 years later.

>>>19) Anyone you want can be found at the local gas station or the town pub.

>>>20) You see at least one friend a week driving a tractor through town or one of your friends drives a grain truck to school occasionally.

>>>21) The gym teacher suggest you haul hay for the summer to get stronger.

>>>22) Directions are given using THE stop light as a reference.

>>>23) You decide to walk somewhere for exercise and 5 people pull over and ask you if you want a ride somewhere.

>>>24) Your teachers call you by your older sibling's names.

>>>25) Your teachers remember when they taught your parents.

>>>26) You can charge at all the local stores or write checks without any ID.

>>>27) The closest McDonalds is 45 miles away (or more).

>>>28) The closest mall is over an hour away.

>>>29) It is normal to see an old man riding through town on a riding lawn mower.

>>>30) You've peed in a cornfield.

 

[310]

where's this town wingnutt?

 

[wingnutt]

where's this town wingnutt?

i would say most any town with a population of less than 1,000

 

[KATL8R26L]

kmco

back in the good old days of nam,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, we lived just under the bombing run to MCO,,,,,,,,,,,i use to look up and just count the big guys comming home B52S just lined up as far as the eye could see.

 

[T-Gates]

Chambodia...hilarious. I've been here most of my life and hadn't heard that one yet.

I like going to the patio at 57th around sunset to have and adult beverage and watch the suits leaving. Downwind is good too if you can get a table on the porch.

It's funny, all ATL pilots have pretty much the same hangouts...

--T

 

[wickedpilot]

never lived on/near airport, this is more how i grew up...

>>>Those of you who didn't grow up in a small town will be in disbelief... but trust me every one of these are true.

>>>1) You can name everyone you graduated with.

>>>2) You know what 4-H is.

>>>3) You went to parties at a pasture, barn, gravel pit, or in the middle of a dirt road. On Monday you could always tell who was at the party because of the scratches on their legs from running through the woods when the party was busted, (see #6. )

>>>4) You used to "drag" main.

>>>5) You said the "F" word and your parents knew within the hour.

>>>6) You scheduled parties around the schedule of different police officers, since you know which ones would bust you and which ones wouldn't.

>>>7) You could never buy cigarettes because all the store clerks knew how old you were (and if you were old enough they'd tell your parents anyhow).
..... etc. 30

Sounds like Marvell Arkansas, dated a girl from there once. Her dad had two airtractors and a 182 with a grass strip that leads right up to his house.
(A crop duster)