Noise radius around a military base (property, house, Alaska, Washington)
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Whats the safe radius to be from a large military base to avoid noise from jets/exercises/artillery? What about major airports? Thinking about buying property so don't wanna make a mistake.
Really depends on what sort of activity happens at the base. In the Chicago area there is a primary basic training facility for the Navy -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Station_Great_Lakes It is located well inland and has no air support or artillery training. Looks more like a college campus than anything else. The only noise one is every likely to hear is from recruits cheering when they graduate.
Some the military bases in the Washington DC area look more like office campuses or hospitals, again zero concerns with noises / safety.
Many of the military bases that do have things that are loud like jets or artillery are located so far away from any kind of civilians (for safety reasons...) that there really is no way to buy property close enough to be 'at risk'. Places like Fort Sill OK, where Army and Marine personnel do practice precision artillery training -- Fort Sill | Oklahoma | Fires Center of Excellence are surrounded with so much empty space that nobody near the civilian part of town really can get close to the explosives. Ditto for places like China Lake, which is pretty isolated: http://www.navair.navy.mil/index.cfm...F-18A1093507F8https://www.google.com/maps/place/Na...9250134ea239e8
The noise radius for the C-17, with four large engines, has been well studied -- http://halfdome.arc.nasa.gov/publica...-2006-2465.pdf Generally if you want 'quiet' you won't be happy anywhere near the standard approach / departure paths...
Don't think of it as noise, think of it as the sound of freedom.
Exactly.
There was a giant billboard near Lewiston, NY in circa 1960 when I lived there that said: Pardon our noise, it's the sound of freedom.
Either F-105s or F-106s used to break Mach 1 over my house.
I thought it was very exciting.
Really does depend on the function of the units assigned to the base. I live more then 30 miles from Ft. Bragg, so 99.9% of the time I have no noise, but every now and then, when they do a big training jump, C-130, after C-130, dozens of them, one after another will fly directly over my house at a pretty low altitude. It is actually a pretty cool sight.
When it comes to civilian airports, you can find on the FAA's website, maps of the flight paths that you may want to avoid if close to one.
Really does depend on the function of the units assigned to the base. I live more then 30 miles from Ft. Bragg, so 99.9% of the time I have no noise, but every now and then, when they do a big training jump, C-130, after C-130, dozens of them, one after another will fly directly over my house at a pretty low altitude. It is actually a pretty cool sight.
When it comes to civilian airports, you can find on the FAA's website, maps of the flight paths that you may want to avoid if close to one.
Well, yea fighter jets can fly anywhere. What about artillery and that kinda thing? People told me their homes were shaking, and they lived like 5 miles out.
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