Why do some people want the airport closed?
It appears because they are sensitive to noise aircraft create. Per studies by California Department of Transportation, a small amount of the population is abnormally sensitive, or “annoyed” by noise. Some just don’t like airplanes. Professional noise studies have determined that the aircraft and Oceanside Airport operations are all within acceptable limits. However, there will always be some people who live directly under a departure path that do not like airplanes. Folks sensitive to aircraft noise that do not live adjacent to the departure path should know that much of the air traffic near Oceanside is not generated by Oceanside Airport traffic. The entire San Diego area and especially the coast have some of the busiest airways in the world.
