Castanet

One of the major sources of letters to the editor has lately been the noise from skydiving airplanes leaving the Vernon airport. With a full load of parachuters on board, the local plane makes a fair amount of noise as it climbs to reach more than 10,000 feet above the city, when the skydivers all bail out.

This week, there will be a skydiving festival in Vernon. Folks from all over Canada and the western US will converge, filling hotel rooms, bars, and restaurants spending money. They will even bring in a Shorts Brothers Skyvan, a plane with rear exit, to allow multiple skydivers to bail out at once. It's a twin engine and should make a lot more noise, enraging those cranky Vernon residents who's pastoral silence is shattered by the noise of departing planes.

They're darn good and mad. And the ranting letters to the editor should get over the top after the long weekend.
Here's a link about last summer's festival.

http://globalnews.ca/news/2800328/skydi ... in-vernon/

Oh darn noise coming from an airport, even a small one like Vernon's, sooner or later it was going to happen. As an area grows so does the airport along with activities associated with having a airport.

Whhhaaaa The whiner and complainers of the Okanagan. Do they ever stop?

Gee I bought a house near an airport and now the noise is bothering me!

Your own fault for buying there and if it bothers you then move!

Gosh....did they not know there would be sound from airplanes when they bought their home "near" a airport ?
Or did they just not think ?

If you want a quiet neighborhood....buy a home beside a graveyard !

Some people are only happy if they make other peoples lives miserable.

Chalmers claimed most of the noise complaints were made by two people and sometimes on days when they were not flying.

They must be new to the area.

I swear, stuff like this makes me want to buy a float plane and hire people to just fly around, all day, just doing nothing but making noise.


One day, one day I will do that.