Comments on: Freighter haters

By: West End Cynic

West End Cynic — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 14:48:53 +0000

I am on the flight path to Mather and have lived in EDH long enough to remember air traffic when it was still an AFB. I know exactly what time the UPS 757s fly over. Honestly, I have to be outside to hear these airliners. With the quiet engines, the noise level is NOT a problem. OTOH, the Blackhawks(medical), CalStar and CHP helos can be heard but no one is asking to ban them.

By: cookie65

cookie65 — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:28:05 +0000

Mather was the home of the B-52, with an occational C-5 just for fun. They used to run MITO’s (minimal interval take offs) all day long. Flatlanders invade our space and then complain about people using space that doesn’t belong to them. Many of them believe that pork chops come from raleys.They left the bay area only to bring all the problems of the bay area with them.

By: Chuck Holland

Chuck Holland — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:11:53 +0000

Great information Paul, Its obvious that the “freighter haters” must be fairly new transplants to El Dorado County. Remembering back to Mather, and McClellan’s hay days of Vietnam and the cold war we would see hundreds of air craft weekly flying over the county. Both rotary and fixed wing would routinely travel to Nevada for training. The few sparse freighters that approach over the county now go mostly unnoticed. Most afternoons around 4:30 UPS quietly glides by on its approach to Mather letting us know commerce is alive and well in Sacramento. Bring back some of the early military jets and their sonic booms, the Freighter haters will beg for today’s quiet freighters.