Noise that's not music to the ears

This is an ongoing on again, off again problem here in Ara Damansara. We border with Subang Airport [or officially known as Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Airport] on our western fringe. No doubt it provides interesting views if you like aeronautics, it would be more appreciated if the occupants of hangers there realised what damage they are doing to our ears and homes. There've been lots of plans talked about with regards to the redevelopment of Subang airport.

Fortunately, I live a little further away from Ara Damansara's western border. But my friends over in Bayu particularly are having a rocking and rolling time especially at night when jet engines are revved for surround effect.

Roof tiles come loose, windows vibrate, koi fish jump out of ponds, people lose precious sleep, real-estate value drops; to list but a few consequences of nightly turbo disturbances from aircraft maintenance.

This complaint is not new. It has surfaced time and again in the media, but when the hype is over, the jet engines return to their daily revs.
Skypark plan riles Subang residents

Hmmmm, perhaps someone needs to fall off their roof while fixing loosened tiles before some permanent solution is adhered to.

Bayu residents tell me that they are faithfully bugging the police to keep aircraft maintenance within civil limits. I personally prefer the police to be policing our area to keep criminals out but when corporate society doesn't cooperate in good neighbourliness, what choice does private society have but burden the already short-handed police to spend their resources on lesser offences.

A Bayu resident informed me that she came home one night and noticed someone lurking under a tree in front of her house. She braved herself to question this someone and found that he was there to do a noise disturbance study. Apparently all he achieved was fattening up the mosquitoes. Whichever authority who sent him should have at least informed the neighbourhood that a representative was going to be sent for the noise study. The residents then would have appreciated the outsider presence in their neighbourhood. At the end of it, what were the findings of the study? Who knows? All we know is that the noise pollution is back to discotheque proportions where talking is futile and physical bodies just move to groovy vibrations.

... and I haven't touched on low flying helicopters yet.