October 2000
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National Turnpike
Fairdale, 40118
October 2000
Recently, we have tried to adapt to the continuous plane noise over our house, which is why you have not heard from us for awhile. However, over the past ten minutes (1:40 to 1:50 a.m.) three planes just buzzed directly over my house AGAIN, waking up both my wife and I again (I estimate they were only 750 -1000 feet - WELL UNDER THE FCC GUIDELINE FOR SIX MILES FROM THE AIRPORT. Please inform whichever xxxx are responsible (air traffic controllers or pilots, since they constantly past the buck between each other) that if this type of inconsiderate, aggressive, intentionally-disruptive behavior occurs again I will have no choice but to resume my fight against the airport through whichever legal, civil or grassroots support method I have to, to force the airport to recognize the sleeping rights of the hundreds of people per night which UPS INTENTIONALLY KEEPS UP.
E. Riverside Drive
Jeffersonville, 47130
October 2000
Today is October 17 and we were kept awake from time to time during the night due to planes flying very low and also directly over our house, at the address I just stated rather than over I-65 where there is already a lot of noise do to truck and automobile traffic. I would appreciate having them routed over I-65. Thank you very much.
Audubon Parkway
Louisville, 40213
October 2000
Sunday morning's peace and quiet was once again disrupted by noisy takeoffs north of the airport, in the non-preferred direction over the most heavily populated areas. At least a dozen departed between 6 and 8 AM, and each time I called the on-field weather report, I got the exact same wind reading: "calm." I'm still awaiting advice on how we can reconcile the information flow between controllers and community, so as to promote either better operational decisions, or better understanding of those decisions in the impacted area, or both. Situations like today's simply aggravate the problem.
Audubon Parkway
Louisville, 40213
October 2000
Here's a sampler of real-time wind readings taken from on-field instruments last evening at times when aircraft departed over the most populated areas north of the airport - operations supposed to occur only when tailwinds for preferred operations to the south exceed 7 knots.
| Local Time | Wind Direction | Wind Speed | Tailwind Component |
| 1715 1745 1820 1835 1915 1940 1955 2015 |
270 270 270 270 290 280 270 280 |
11 10 7 6 6 6 6 7 |
2 2 1 1 3 2 1 2 |
On an otherwise very pleasant, clear and dry evening, there's no apparent logic to these highly disruptive operations, unless there are other factors at work that should be available to the impacted community. But repeated calls for ideas to resolve these questions have gone unanswered so far.