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The skies won’t seem especially friendly to anyone taking off from Philadelphia International Airport if they notice what a suburban couple wrote on the roof of their home.
“(Expletive) U FAA,” the message reads, though one letter of the profane word is substituted with an underline. Below that it is a picture of a plane with a slash through it and the words “no fly zone.”
Homeowner Michael Hall and his girlfriend, Michaelene Buddy, are angry that jets have been flying over their house since last month, when the Federal Aviation Administration altered departures heading out of Philadelphia. Hall says he has to sleep with earplugs.
“Just doing it made me feel better, but I’d still like to say what I wrote directly to the idiot head of the FAA,” said Hall.
The county is suing the FAA. Should be resolved in a decade or so.
And in a few weeks the county will require them to paint it over or they will do it and charge them.
Can’t be harass the Feds. These two most likely have the TSA watching for them also!
I didn’t know you weren’t allowed to print F_CK U in the United States. I wonder if you’re allowed to print F__K U?
In that context, how is F_ U better, I wonder?
On the other hand, it’s OK to launch a first strike, nuclear attack against Stone Age people in Afghanistan, just so long as they don’t have any nuclear weapons themselves, so can’t fight back.
I’ll never understand the U.S.A.
I can already tell, this is going to be a GREAT day.
Lets see, the airport has been there since the 1920s, that house given its style probably was built in the 60s or 70s. If I may be so bold, it is extremely stupid to buy a house next to an existing airport or air base and then complain about the noise. Any half whit with a lick of sense, common sense that so uncommon commodity not required, knows that planes are noisy and that airports and airbases are likely to have planes, and that from time to time planes will fly in different directions than usual.
#3, Bob,
I really love you guys that don’t even read the article yet have some profound opinion.
THEY CHANGED THE FLIGHT PATHS !!!. OK? Can you understand that now? Planes did not fly over their house before. They do now and while they are under full power.
I will say, living close to Philadelphia, there are A LOT of houses by the airport. Yeah no one was thinking about airport noise when they built those homes . But then again it doesn’t take into account that the planes taking off and landing are now in a new pattern. I live on the other side of the Delaware, and I see planes every day. It’s a very busy airport. I’m just glad there high enough when they are over me that I can’t hear it. What is odd is that they usually land from the north (along the river) or from the east (over me) so they basically fly of city proper all the time so they can give everyone that savory sound.
If someone made a sign of a crossed out airplane and took it to an airport, they’d be tasered faster than bowl of chips being eaten at a superbowl party. So it’s only a matter of time before the FAA police break down their doors to perform some in-house cavity inspections.
Seriously, I’m with 3. Even if they did not live near an airport, things change people. You don’t own the air above your property so planes have a right to be there. If every single property owner could dictate whether or not planes could fly overhead, the airline industry would be non-existent.
And one last thing, I’ve slept with ear plugs at night since the early 90s and yet I have no desire to sue anyone. Geez loser, get a life!
Since we don’t have Free speech in this country, they will have to remove it.
You can’t speak Truth to Power without consequences. Prepare to be f_c_ed by the Feds.
I frequently sleep with earplugs in, and a fan for white noise. And that’s just because I live in the city. I don’t sue the city for having loud people in it.
Planes changing flight paths wasn’t done purposefully to annoy them, and I doubt any guarantee was given to these homeowners that planes would never fly above them. You live anywhere near an airport, it’s something you may have to deal with. This is life.
Besides, the house looks poopy, they should move. [/sarcasm]
Mmmm Ghetto Birds.
House from the top looks like a hot dog stand converted into a house! 🙂
It looks a dog tied up out back on a short chain, he probably barks all night driving their neighbors nuts! …ehh, maybe it’s a grill in front of a shed and not a dog…
It matters not a bit that they changed the flight paths. That happens all the time all over the country. New runways get built, new instrument landing systems get installed, new inroute airways get designatted.
If you buy a house near and airport you should pretty much expect to hear aircraft.
#, SN
It isn’t a question of using the airspace. It is a noise problem. I have visited several facilities built around flight paths. Many of them are impossible to have a conversation outside which is why they were zoned industrial.
This house appears to be have been there quite some time. When it was built, certain conditions applied, including the Philly Airport being much smaller and quite possible using propeller aircraft with fewer take offs. So while change may happen, the airport’s gain should not come at the expense of the surrounding property owners.
I’m sure you don’t want to resort to using a nose plug when a pig farm sets up next to you.
This is why they’re looking into putting those anti-missile systems on airliners. They’re not really all that worried about terrorists, but sleep deprived, driven to the edge of psychosis by jet noise homeowners are a serious concern.
Weird. The letter F is out of bounds. Soon we will relate to cognitive tickle with color cards. Eat your Gods. They are hungry.
#6, SN, “You don’t own the air above your property so planes have a right to be there.”
True!
But the noise these people are having a problem with is not above the house, it is IN the house. And there in is the problem. And it is an old one.
I forget the name of the case, but way, way back when the B and O railroad first began using steam engines (1830s), a landowner with adjacent land sued because the soot, cinders and noise were making it impossible to farm his land as he had done before. Went to the Supreme Court, IIRC, who ruled that, even though the landowner was indeed suffering a loss, since railroads were such a great triumph of technology and so useful, he was screwed. And that’s how US pollution laws stayed. A little more than 100 years later, Lake Erie and the river in Cleveland caught fire, and the trees started dying in the San Gabriel Mountains, finally, someone began to think, maybe this is wrong!
Noise pollution is just as serious as other kinds, and it is another way that the airlines get away with murder.
It possible that the re-routing of those planes could also be due to the fact the originally they (planes) were flying over a more wealthier area. They complained or knew somebody. Thus the flight path change. I’ll never buy the fact that the changes are due to congestion. IF the airlines would stop overselling and stuffing/cramming people into more planes, this wouldn’t be an issue.
Also, I live in NJ and where I live, I’m seeing more air traffic over my house too, because of this change. I live 10+ miles from Newark air port. South of Newark. Before the planes were much higher.. now they are flying lower than before. Noise has increased. I’m also not in a very wealthy area…..
Airlines need to cut out all of those useless flights.
#16 – I agree.
#17 – It possible that the re-routing of those planes could also be due to the fact the originally they (planes) were flying over a more wealthier area.
That is VERY likely.
Burn the rich!
Google earth coordinates?
Airlines are more packed to save money. Like it or not, true or not, the days of half filled jets are long gone. There are times when certain flights will be less congested, but don’t expect it often anymore.
I used to live in NJ, NYC, and Philly. There are certain places where noise is expected. A flight path change might screw this guys sleep, but if they change it to someplace else, it’ll screw up somebody elses sleep. It’s life.
If you live in a city, near an airport, or near a highway, you might one day get distracted by loud neighbors, bad neighbors, or new construction hassles. It sucks and you can complain, but like anything, the only thing it’ll do is make somebody else pissed off.
Today this guy complains and if they change the flight path for him, somebody else will complain tomorrow cause the jet noise over their houses keep them up at night.
If you don’t like noise, go move to Antartica or something where very few people are at and there are very few jets or cars.
I’m about tired of these idiots who complain when it’s their own stupidty. Build an expensive house on the shore and watch it come crashing down during a storm then expect the government to bail them out. Gee, go figure a house on the shore might get whacked by a hurricane or flood. Same goes for this guy. Buy a house near an airport and get surprised when the airport changes it’s flight paths. Wow, sometimes people need to stop being stupid.
Standard Airport Traffic is a left hand box pattern over the airport with the downwind leg one half mile from the runway, left turn perpendicular to the runway about 2-4 miles from the end of the runway at about 3000ft elevation, then turn to final approach with a steady descent.
Instrument approaches are more straight line from about 10 miles out at 10,000 feet with a gradual descent to the aforementioned window.
Anything out of those normal paths are because of congestion or conflicts.
Zero sympathy. Not ‘a little’ – none whatsoever. The existence of the airport was not kept a secret from them. Neither is the fact that takeoff and landing patterns at any airport can and do change.
Their lack of foresight is not someone else’s fault.
The Philadelphia airport is built in a swamp, who would want to live there?, they must be idiots…
Try taking a flight out of Orange County (Calif.) John Wayne Airport.
The jet takes on westbound, towards the Pacific and over the hyper-expensive Newport Beach. The good citizens of Newport don’t like jets flying at full power over their expensive homes. So this is what the pilots have to do.
When the jet takes off from John Wayne, the pilot applies full power and takes off what feels like a straight up vertical ascent.
Once at a safe altitude, the pilot then cuts the engines back to almost nothing. The jet then starts to fall, gliding over Newport Beach.
Once past Newport and over the Pacific, the pilot can once again apply power to the engines and gain altitude. As a passenger who doesn’t know about this take off method they have to use, it can be very unnerving.
That takeoff from John Wayne was the most fun of any takeoff I’ve ever been on. It was like the space shuttle taking off. The newer jetliners can sure generate a lot of thrust.