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Debate: Flight Paths Over Residential Areas
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[Edit] Should we avoid having flight paths over residential areas? |
[Edit] Background and Context of Debate:Airports need to be somewhere but often planes have to fly over residential areas on their approach or when they take off. Airplanes create a lot of noise and the problem is that residents don't want noise every five minutes. I personally live under a flight path and we have noisy planes going over all the time. What do you think - is the airport in the people's way or are the residents in the way of the airport? There are many issues about this - Should we build suburbs under existing flight paths? Should we make flight paths over existing suburbs? Should there be a plane curfew at night? Is it really that noisy? |
[Edit] [ ![]() Is aircraft noise a big problem? | |
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[Edit] [ ![]() Should we go as far as not building suburbs under flight paths? | |
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Aircraft noise carries several kilometres either side of the plane. If we avoided building anything under flight paths, there would be huge gaps of nothing through the middle of cities. It is not logical.
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[Edit] [ ![]() Curfews: Should there be aircraft curfews where noise is an issue? | |
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[Edit] [ ![]() Should flight paths be adjusted to avoid being over residential areas? | |
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