Yet the assumption that voluntary imposition of restrictions will result in greater acceptance of an airfield is proving increasingly to be ill-founded. They can counter it through information and public relations work. But information is no substitute for being prepared for an onslaught. If necessary, aerodrome operators or flying clubs must resort to legal means to defend themselves. Anyone who produces noise must accept that this will arouse hostility in some quarters.
Conflicts are unavoidable.
This applies to all means of transport, from the car to railways and transport planes. The same is true of sports facilities such as football grounds, tennis courts and mini-golf courses. Opponents of noise have even taken exception to noises that are scarcely perceptible such as the sound of parachutes opening on winch cables. Of course these are extreme examples, but they show only too clearly that anyone who is not prepared to face up to opposition objectively, logically and with self-confidence in order to defend his position, will always end up the loser. Without airfields planes cannot fly.