Look what has happend at Elvington
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Here are the rules for noise at Elvington!!!! Is this the thin end of the wedge? http://www.elvingtonairfield.co.uk/ Click on Noise management.
Edited by kestral on Friday 29th February 23:07
What's the problem? If you read other forums, then you would realise that this has been coming for quite a while. It all looks a lot more complicated than it actually is. The noise limits don't actually affect too many of the Straightliners bikes, mainly the older bikes. I think that much of this was brought on by the airfield owners allowing F1 cars to test there.
kestral said:
Here are the rules for noise at Elvington!!!! Is this the thin end of the wedge? http://www.elvingtonairfield.co.uk/ Click on Noise management.
Yes you are right. There is other threads about this on here and the rest of PH, but why use Elvington when you can use Melbourne just down the road? If more organizers, racers and fans used York more it might just make enough cash to have the strip resurfaced etc! 
Edited by feritsbum on Saturday 1st March 12:52
CRR said:
[quote=kestralIt is VERY restrictive on week days?
Why on earth shouldn't it be very restrictive on weekdays?
To be honest it should have no restrictions at all. It is an airfield after all and the people that complained are recent newcomers to the area anyway and should not be allowed to alter things from what they where before they came! They knew what it was like there, it is just typical how things are going in this country. Why on earth shouldn't it be very restrictive on weekdays?
[/quote]To be honest it should have no restrictions at all. It is an airfield after all and the people that complained are recent newcomers to the area anyway and should not be allowed to alter things from what they where before they came! They knew what it was like there, it is just typical how things are going in this country.
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I think you need to wake up and start living in the real world. This has been coming at Elvington for the last 30 years or so ever since they built new houses at the eastern end of the runway.
Strange coincidence but where i used to work (1hr from 'Pod) we had a temp manager from head office. Head office is off the A45 near Waitrose. Anyway she found out i am a regular at the 'Pod and lives next to someone who drives a blue Santa Pod transit van. Cutting a long story short she said if the wind is in the wrong direction you can hear it loud and clear. To the best of her knowledge she does not give two hoots nor do some long term residents. Thank heavens!
CRR said:
I think you need to wake up and start living in the real world. This has been coming at Elvington for the last 30 years or so ever since they built new houses at the eastern end of the runway.
so in essence they had a good view of said runway when the went to look before purchase..The real world is that house builders build in stupid places,then stupid people don't do their homework before buying.It's a bit like buying a house on a flood plain,then being surprised when you wake up after a week of rain to water lapping up the sofa...
Think of it like this.. You have a 100year old house,and in the grounds of the house there is a little industry,say a blacksmith.Someone moves in next door and knocks your door telling you to get rid of the blacksmith because they make too much noise.
Would you? Or would you just say that they should have checked before buying the house?
all hypothetical i know but can you see what i'm driving at?
Edited by redvictor on Sunday 2nd March 09:45
CRR said:
I think you need to wake up and start living in the real world. This has been coming at Elvington for the last 30 years or so ever since they built new houses at the eastern end of the runway.
Yes, like I was saying, newcomers, the airfield was there first so why should it suffer or change? People who buy houses there know it's an airport. Serve them right if TNT or DHL turn it into one of their distribution airports now like they say they might.Back to front standards nowadays and no common sense in anything anymore!
kestral said:
But the shuttle is due to go in a year or so is it not? I dont know it gets worse and worse 
There will always be a need for thumping great runways for military and strategic purposes. Without giving too much away, do you really think the money they get from the car, bike and lsr based activity would keep someone employed to pick the weeds out of that runway? Let alone everything else.Elvington clearly is still of strategic significance to someone...
feritsbum said:
Yes, like I was saying, newcomers, the airfield was there first so why should it suffer
How do you know it's newcomers that are complaining? Do you know that for a fact or are you just repeating the same rubbish that other people have written? Yes, the airfield has been there for a long while, but it was built for airplanes not for driving/riding cars and bikes. What makes you think that people have a God given right to drive anything on it at any time of the day or any day of the week and make as much noise as they like in the process?CRR said:
feritsbum said:
Yes, like I was saying, newcomers, the airfield was there first so why should it suffer
How do you know it's newcomers that are complaining? Do you know that for a fact or are you just repeating the same rubbish that other people have written? Yes, the airfield has been there for a long while, but it was built for airplanes not for driving/riding cars and bikes. What makes you think that people have a God given right to drive anything on it at any time of the day or any day of the week and make as much noise as they like in the process?
CRR said:
feritsbum said:
Yes, like I was saying, newcomers, the airfield was there first so why should it suffer
How do you know it's newcomers that are complaining? Do you know that for a fact or are you just repeating the same rubbish that other people have written? Yes, the airfield has been there for a long while, but it was built for airplanes not for driving/riding cars and bikes. What makes you think that people have a God given right to drive anything on it at any time of the day or any day of the week and make as much noise as they like in the process?Seems to me that if these folks did as much towards the community as they do complain this country of ours would move forward.
Maybe if they don't like it they should buy an island somewhere in the pacific,that is until they started complaining about the wind being noisy at all times of the day...
Sheesh,there is SO much more to worry about....
[quote=Jon C
There will always be a need for thumping great runways for military and strategic purposes.
Elvington clearly is still of strategic significance to someone...
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Possibly, but Woodbridge is a similar 2 miles in length to Elvington but that is really rundown now as there's now a jungle between the runway and perimeter road.
There will always be a need for thumping great runways for military and strategic purposes.
Elvington clearly is still of strategic significance to someone...
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Possibly, but Woodbridge is a similar 2 miles in length to Elvington but that is really rundown now as there's now a jungle between the runway and perimeter road.
CRR said:
Possibly, but Woodbridge is a similar 2 miles in length to Elvington but that is really rundown now as there's now a jungle between the runway and perimeter road.
Interesting. Where is Woodbridge airfield, is it near Ipswitch. Any chance of a multimap ref? A little bit more about Elvinton here:-
http://www.thisisyork.co.uk/display.var.1030118.0....
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