[twobjshelbys]

We moved to Colorado for the second time just a few months after Denver International Airport opened. It was out in the middle of nowhere. Literally farmland and some sod farms. Industrial then moved in on the major roads like Pena and the eastern extents of roads like 104th and 120th. Then some residential started at and headed east to Tower Road. Tower was the western edge of the airport development area...

Now those people whose houses were built decades after the airport was built are complaining about the noise and want approaches changed so the planes don't fly over their houses.

The same thing is happening in Vegas. Places that were on the fringe of the airport have now been developed and now people are complaining. The Henderson airport was out in the sticks 5 years ago. Now homes are there and people are wanting to shut that airport down.

We had to sign an acknowledgement that our house was near an airport and that occasionally approaches might mean planes fly overhead. It does happen but not often and even when we're outside don't hear them. Even though our house is only about 2 miles south of the airport the flight pattern takes the approaches from the west to east about a mile south (but sometimes a little close) and then out east over Boulder City then back in so we don't get the airport noise. Occasionally we get a weather oriented private jet approach to Henderson which we do hear. We hear much more police helicopter activity. The coolest one was when the big multi-country thing was up at Nellis and we had a whole formation of about 10 Black Hawks fly overhead. THAT WAS NOISY!!!