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Ford Prefect, I must disagree with your statement that pilots must do 'considerable coordination' in order to buzz one's home.

I live southwest of the Olympia airport and private aircraft...single engine and twin engine aircraft that are NOT jets...buzz my home all the time. They come in and circle for half an hour or more, and seldom very high. I have Flight Aware, now, and the altitudes these pilots fly at is always much lower than the FAA's regulation 1000 feet vertical and no closer horizontally han 500 ft to a building or a person on the ground. These numbers are ignored so frequently that I had to tell a person at the Olympia Airport the regulation was in the FAA's website.

We've taken pictures of these planes and forwarded them to the FAA in Seattle. It's not at all uncommon to be able to see the people in the aircraft. They fly low enough that not only can we capture their registration number with a camera, but with a small powered binocular, even, sometimes, when my grandson is here, with the naked eye.

And, anecdotally...years ago, I got the number of a plane owned by Glacier Aviation. I called the owner of the plane to ask him to NOT circle my house. He told me, "I didn't spend a .... load of money for my plane just to have some crackpot tell me where I can fly it."

So much for courtesy and civility from the general aviation side. Yes, Planes are loud and I don't like them circling my house every day. The few wealthy folks who use the Olympia airport disregard the rights of the many who can't afford an expensive airplane. I'd love to go park in their driveway with my noisy tractor. I don't because it would disturb his neighbors.

So please understand that when the port commissioners dismissed protestors claim of 630 flights a day..even after one person read it from the Port's own literature-that the honesty of the Port is questionable. It is obvious what the Port's agenda is. It's money at the expense of everything else. I see this entire reconfiguration as a handful of people making a decision to destroy the quality of life for thousands of Thurston county taxpayers, for the benefit of corporations (Amazon, Costco, for example) who like the idea of an airport conveniently located for their cargo jets to use.