I have never been much of a fan of other people complaining about something that others are doing but I grew up out in the country where you could do what you wanted and not worry. Its funny how the new neighbors complain about stuff like the smell of freshly spread cow manuer but never thought about that kind of stuff when they moved to the area. Its also funny how when the wind blows all of their trash and trash barrels wind up in our fence row and they have to look at it every time they leave their drive but never pick it up but they can still coment on some weeds around the barnyard looking bad. I dont understand why an existing field or anything or anybody else doesnt have rights because they were there first. As far as the noise, I love it, the louder the cooler! Does that affect our flying sites, probablly. The reason for most all noise reduction devices in effect today are probably in place form the Federal Goverment. I dont think the Federal Goverment is going to put db. limits on our planes but we as an rc communitity could if the AMA would get together with every major distributor and come up with a plan. For example the plan could be something like all glow and gas motors must meet a ??db reading by the year 2010. this would give time for engine manufactures to come up with quiet exuast systems and also give plane manufactures time to plan for prospective ways to make airframes to acomodate those systems. By the year 2012 no airplane exceding those db limits will be allowed to fly at any contest. By the year 2015 no airplane exceding those db limits can fly, period. If all the big names met up somewhere and decided on stuff and all agreed not to sell items that didn't conform it would work. Nobody would really loose out because they all would be dealing with the same rules. Besides, if the competition side of stuff made it tough, all the quality equipment would change and that would be what most of the average joes wind up buying also. Look at any quad runner exaust, it has information stamped into it stating its specs, most racers switch out to a free flow exaust and get some performance but if nobody made those exaust or it was illegal to use them, anywhere, you wouldn't see many. A stock exaust quad is unable to be heard at about 200 yards in a woods, a free exaust and you can hear it just as loud on the far side of the woods as you can when its right next to you darn near. Our planes wouldnt be that much different, an exuast that was an actuall muffler and not just an acasut diverter would make all of our planes exceptionally quiet. As far as GS planes and gas motors, cannisters are not the only answer. We would all get used to needing a 120 instead of a 100 for the same performace level. Engines can be virtually silent with a good muffler and in our case they wouldnt have to be that much bigger, heavier, whatever to be a lot quieter. Intake on bikes, snowmobiles, ect. are part of the noise. I have never ever heard of anyone trying to do anything to quiet the intake of our engines. I would have to imagine that just like on any other engine the entakes can be put in a big box to quiet the intake sound. I will admit I have never really noticed the intake sound on a model plane ,glow or gas but it has to be there, just not heard over the exaust and prop and other engine noise, it all adds up though. Enough for now, things can be made quiet if people in high places really want them to be. I like loud myself, always have, always will. I dont think Im intruding on anyone, they are just being crybabies. As far as GS planes go, many don't even come ready to accept canister mufflers so many do not see noise as a problem yet anyway.