[quote=CONCHO]. . . On landing the pilot has the opposite problem, he needs to reduce speed as much as possible while preserving his options in case of emergency.
So being in the flight path can mean different things at different times. Better to be in the landing path than the takeoff path IMO, especially here where the directions rarely reverse. That said, I would NEVER want to live right under the landing path, it is really, really loud.[/quote]
Lol, CONCHO, for almost 3 years, I lived on the corner of Front and Ivy. Standing on the roof deck of our building, we could read the lettering on the just-lowered tires of the commercial jets (that’s when I was young and my eyesight was good ;=}.) Our building was too old to have access to “Mission Cable” (Cox later bought them out). We had antennas on the roof deck. Every 20 mins or so, when a jet came over, we got “snow” on our TV screen for 20 seconds minimum …
Rent was $225 mo for an 800 sf unit on the 3rd flr, with a panoramic view of the bay and beyond (foreground: entire runway in infintesimal detail). We had a telescope and camera tripod with zoom lens set up in the LR and caught several “close-calls.” We also rented an oversized 2-car garage on Albatross St to store our (land and sea-going) “toys” for $100 mo.
Note: This was 35 years ago but nothing has changed in this regard (except the rent) :=]
Edit: Oh, I forgot to add that the rent in ALL THREE of my dtn apts INCLUDED ALL UTILS!!
