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
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