Planes are just a way of...

Planes are just a way of life in Newport-Mesa

I am a longtime Costa Mesa resident and avid Daily Pilot reader

due to your excellent coverage of the community (news, ads, etc).

Regarding Costa Mesa residents’ complaining about Long Beach

Airport noise, please provide neutral, unbiased, in-depth reporting

on this matter.

The recent coverage (CHOC on Westside, Long Beach Airport) appear

to be focused on NIMBY (Not-In-My-Back-Yard) points-of-view. Costa

Mesa is centrally located in Orange County, which is a double sided

coin (pro and con).

I am a resident of Mesa Verde and can see the flights over our

home, too. I can even discern America West flights compared to

American Airlines flights based on aircraft type and airlines color

schemes. I can’t ever recall seeing Jet Blue planes. I have flown the

route while on America West routing from Phoenix to Long Beach and my

guess is that only America West and American Airline (Dallas-Fort

Worth to Long Beach) fly this route.

We have young children, and the planes actually draw our attention

in a positive manner (“Look kids, it’s a plane”).

The folks in the Eastside and Newport Beach have many more flights

of low flying planes that create noise. We Westside residents have

little flights/noise by concern, thus little to no need to complain.

If we want to complain about noise, then there is the San Diego

Freeway noise and even the Disneyland fireworks like clockwork at

9:35 p.m. each summer evening.

As a regular user of John Wayne Airport, I think I have to accept

seeing a plane overhead. If the Pilot wishes to expand breadth/depth

regarding this issue, I encourage you to look at the local flight

paths, as my own experience tells me that Southbound flights (San

Jose and San Francisco) to John Wayne Airport turn inland at the

Santa Ana River (Huntington Beach and Costa Mesa) while Pacific

routes to LAX (Sydney, etc.) turn inland at a higher altitude at

Huntington Pier.

I think looking at flight paths would show that many/most Southern

California residents can see (and even maybe hear) planes in the air

if they look into their local sky.

RICH RUTLEDGE

Costa Mesa

There are many problems in Newport

I am at a loss? What has happened to our Newport?

From 7 a.m. until 11 p.m., commercial jets, and midnight to

midnight, private jets.

From 7 a.m. until 4 p.m., gardeners blowing weeds from your

neighbor’s yards to your yards and mine.

We go from bankruptcy of Orange County and cable providers at home

to Adelphia.

We have a mayor who accepts contributions from developers and yet

they have no influence on him?

We have City Council members who hired a campaign manager that has

been supported in recent past by city money in a failed campaign to

preserve our lifestyle and we have nothing to show for the money

spent (“Report shows no irregularities,” Saturday).

We had a supervisor from Newport Beach who represented us but was

concerned with his image, legacy and monument he created.

We had another supervisor from Newport Beach who couldn’t stand

the heat, made up her mind and left early.

We had an appointed supervisor, this time not from Newport Beach,

who claimed he represented us but not in fact.

We have a supervisor now from where and who is he?

We have a governor that no one seems to wants and we have a

candidate for governor who can’t shoot straight.

We have a congressman who talks big in public but won’t answer

“What did he know and when did he know it?”

We have a president who wants to protect us from forest fires by

destroying the trees.

Hey. Does anyone else care except for the exceptional few who do

speak out?

Am I missing something or can’t I see the woods for the trees?

Maybe the president’s approach is right. We should burn a few

trees to see where in the heck we are headed.

JACK DELUCA

Newport Beach