Joe Nall and Mufflers??

[Tired Old Man]

Just curious. Of all the proponents of cans in this thread, how many of you have mega loud stereos in your or your kids' vehicles? How many work on or ride expansion chamber dirt bikes or quads in the areas they live? How many use gas powered leaf blowers at home? How many have Harleys with modified pipes? Modified pipes on your personal vehicles louder than stock?

Now that you've quietly aswered that to yourselves while publically denying that any of the above fits, why do you want everyone to meet your flight noise restrictions while you clearly don't give a s--t about anybody else in your neighborhoods? For those that don't fly IMAC, go to the Nall, or other generally eastern events, why should we care, especially if we fly in areas that are not noise sensitive?

To say there's NO reason not to have cans is beyond presumptious. It's boderline dictatorial, but that's the way the one writer generally works. If your field has noise restrictions and a plane doesn't make the grade then it doesn't fly there. That simple. Like as not the owner of that plane would not have felt welcome anyway since his stuff wasn't just like yours.

Making statements that those that don't use cans are jeapordizing all the fields for everyone and the sport in general is way out of line and dead wrong. Cans or no, it's a personal decision directly related to the location to be flown and the desires of the owner, period. I've been in a lawsuit where a neighbor was trying to close a field. Funny thing is noise was never brought up as one of the reasons the neighbor wanted it closed. BTW, the neighbor lost. Both the case and a whole lot of money in the effort.

When residents around a flying field want that field closed, noise won't be the primary issue, but it will be used as one of the primary attacks. If that field has the potential to be turned into a soccor field near a residential area, you just lost the field if you didn't own it. The neighbors won't mind the sounds from a very large sporting event PA system one bit. I guarantee it.