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Originally Posted by Keith1  Coming in to this thread at 90 degrees here, what really ticks me off is that they are restricting race cars like it's going out of fashion but still allow private planes unsilenced operation. I'm not saying that they should silence planes in the same way but that they should be a little bit more consistent. Live & let live. My mother's house is on the Goodwood flight path and we get an enormous number of planes flying over low and slow doing circuits and bumps, aerobatics including Pitts Specials at full bore and the whole range of Pratt & Whitney rpms. I find it quite astonishing that they have curtailed the noise limits of Goodwood's minimal motor sport activity and yet allow apparently unrestricted private flight noise. We don't complain about the planes because Goodwood was there long before mother's house was. Why don't the Nimby's that have been so active in shutting the circuit up complain about the flying? Or haven't they thought of that yet?
I don't get it...  |
Just as a point of interest, my neighbour built a Murphy Rebel Kitplane with Lyc 0-320 to which we fitted one of these mufflers, currently have removed it due to a problem with mounting & absorbing the movement of the Lyc on its mounts, but while fitted it was ''very'' quiet in operation. In fact its 'low' noise level is almost an issue during ground movements, people are not aware of its presence and wont move out of harms way.
Wont be long before someone gets run over by a race car because they did not hear it coming!
Jac Mac