Prompting a question about the capacity of the JeffCo Airport. He bluntly stated that the airport does not measure noise on the premises. And over the past five years, the aircraft flying in and out of JeffCo have been getting larger, but none exceed the 7,000 pound weight limit, he said. Bob Super added that the traffic patterns have not changed. Residents in and around Longmont also complained that they are having problems with private pilots flying low and noisily over the community.
Residents say some pilots are deviating from the airport's flight pattern.
He felt that FAA officials should remove the source of the noise, not just move it somewhere else. He also called for regulation of Single Event Noise Levels. A Louisville resident echoed this sentiment saying that moving the flight patterns is not going to solve the problem. She called for putting money into technology to make planes quieter and a return to the practice abandoned decades ago of putting the identifying numbers in large block print on the underside of the aircraft for easier identification. And yet another Longmont resident complained that the cities of Boulder and Longmont are subsidizing a public nuisance by supporting the local airports.