Posted by Ventura22 on August 23, 2007 at 3:59 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Well, it is an airport. Like most airports or transportation hubs(railroads), there was little development back when they were planned. Nowadays, with the population and real estate issues, the people will have to work closely with the transportation authorities, not against them, to be able to coexist. This is like building a development around a railroad corridor, having to put-in busy roads with rail crossings, then complain when the trains blow their horns, as they are required to when they approach crossings...whereas before anything was around, the train would most likely remain silent, unless the operator spotted someone near the tracks.
The area south of the airport is also a flight path for a military base that lands large aircraft(Point Mugu NAS), so routing Camarillo traffic over that area will pose additional problems.

Posted by drumsnwhistles on August 23, 2007 at 7:18 p.m. (Suggest removal)

We live between City Hall and the freeway and planes constantly overfly our house -- far too low and loud, not to mention the 6:30pm jet express that roars in below the clouds on foggy nights. It's horrible,and we're not even supposed to be in the flight path, not that any of the pilots pay a lot of attention to that.

They have no business building any homes close to that airport, in my opinion, particularly with the amount of low fog we have here. Approaches are low and loud on a cloudy night, with all those pilots flying on VFR and trying to maintain their visibility.

Posted by Nosmo_King on August 23, 2007 at 10:27 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Noise??...This used to be an Air Force base! With Jet Fighters on moments notice to shoot down the communist threat. With all the practice and drills a military base should have. If you are really concerned about noise get after the Harley Davidson crowd. I love this part..$11,500 to study the risk of an airplane "landing in the area." I'm sorry to point out the obvious, but after 50 plus years of the airport here, with no airplanes landing in that area with a runway a 1/4 mile away...well, make the check out to Nosmo_King

Posted by calipilot99 on August 24, 2007 at 11:27 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Airplanes are not flying illegally, it's called taking off and landing. That is what airplanes do at airports. The airport will not close no matter what any of you think. If you work in aviation and have an understanding of airport funding then you would know that the airport will not and cannot close for at least 20 years minimum. Are they going to study the noise and pollution from the freeway and farms as well? It is really hard to change the current flight patterns due to the fact that there are 3 airports within a 5 mile radius all having instrument approaches for bad weather. Any changes to these would likely conflict with another airport. The fact they many of you chose to live under an airports flight pattern is your choice and should have been disclosed during the sale of your homes. I don't think anyone can honestly say they did not know that there was an airport nearby. As far as aircraft noise, the aircraft that are in production today are much quieter than older models. Some of these older aircraft could be much quieter during takeoff if they had more runway available for takeoff. If they made 1500-2000ft available for takeoff only (called a displaced threshold) it would make many more people happy. Keep the current runway length for landing. The airport could do it, there is about 4000-5000 ft of abandoned runway from when it was the AFB. There are to many things to list here that many people do not understand about flight rules, flying, small airplanes, airports and the airlines (good grief). Here are some helpful websites to enlighten your knowledge on aviation. www.gaservingamerica.org and www.aopa.org A great documentary that was released about 1-2 years ago that is called "One Six Right" can also give some insight on airports and includes the late Hal Fishman from KTLA. My opinion on this as a professional pilot is that it should either remain farmland or zoned commercial/industrial. One last comment is that the best pilots are the local pilots because they know the area and all it takes is one pilot not local to make to much noise to make the rest of the local pilots look bad that follow all of the noise abatement rules. Sometimes though the noise cannot be any less in the interest of safety, and safety always rules.