The sound of our engines is music to the RC aeromodeler, but just irritating noise to the non modeler. I friend of mine has 100 acres of his own land to fly on, but a grouchy neighbor who just loves to find new things to complain about, went out his way to make life miserable for my buddy. My friend use to fly glow powered planes, but kept getting phone calls complaints from his grouchy neighbor. So just to keep the peace, he just flew electrics and sail planes on his property.

Guess what? Even though there was no noise to complain about, the grouchy neighbor saw the planes, continued making complaining phone calls to not only my buddy, but also to everyone he could think of in the neighborhood and the local government officials. Since no one else was in the hobby, they just went along with the grouch and tried to (unsuccessfully) legally get my buddy to stop flying anything even though it was on his own property. Noise? I don't think so. BTW, this is not just an isolated incident.

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