I'm pretty much alone in this, thus my desire to take it REALLY slow. I don't know anyone that flies around here. Back "home" my parents live near a small grass strip airport where they used to fly all the time and I could hear the little combustion engines (on the planes) from a half mile to about a mile away (thus my concern on noise, but it was nice and quiet there.) Unfortunately, I think they stopped flying a few years back and besides, it's a good two hour drive to get there.