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Flying over the same spot for years on end.

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A flight school is operating over my neighborhood. They literally come to my neighborhood about 10-15 days per month. This has been happening for the last 6 years.

They have different patterns that they fly, several circles and some straight line flying with turns. This all occurs over my neighborhood. On many days and nights I have an airplane (Cessna) flying past my house every 3 to 4 minutes for 6 to 8 hours (with refueling). I have observed people in my neighborhood and noticed that they react to noise while talking to others Sometimes a helicopter comes to my neighborhood for hours.

It happened today again. About 8 hours of flying around my neighborhood. The plane flew over my house about every 4 minutes and 15 seconds.

The airport that the flight school uses is about 42 miles from my home. The airport is out in the country away from the large city that I live in. A 42 mile radius circle has about 5500 square miles.

My neighborhood is not in some unusual location or far removed from nearby airports. We lived in the area for about 50 years and this has never happened before. The closest airport shut down about 20 years ago. The closest airport is now 11 miles away and is larger than my neighborhood. It is used by commercial jet aircraft. The neighborhood is about 5500 by 4500 feet. The flight school never ventures outside the boundaries of my neighborhood. I was hoping that the pilot could avoid repeatedly flying closer than 2000 horizontal feet to the same spot.

I already know that the pilot is not doing anything illegal. Below are several examples of legal flying.

Repeatedly flying over a televised golf game.
Repeatedly flying over a home (trumps restraining orders and anti-stalking laws).
Approaching/harassing wild life such as whales or a herd of walruses (a stampede can kill young walruses). Federal laws that include hundreds-of-thousands of dollars in fines and years of imprisonment do not apply.
Repeatedly flying over a cruise ship.

Do flight schools practice noise abatement by not flying over the same spot (closer than 2000 horizontal feet) for years on end? Is my situation unusually or the norm?


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