Unhappy residents should move

Dear Editor,

With regard to Bill Shepherd’s letter in the Oct.16 edition of The Oshawa Express regarding getting rid of the flight training schools at Oshawa Executive Airport. I have a couple of questions to ask him.

The first is what year was his house built, and the second question is when did he move into that house?

The reason I ask these questions is because the airport was built in 1941 specifically to train pilots under the Commonwealth Air Training Plan. At that time there were very few houses around the airport. A lot of houses have been built since then with the knowledge that there was an airport in close proximity, and anyone who has purchased a house since then has known full well that there will be aircraft flying overhead with the accompanying noise. It seems strange to me that you would buy a house so close to an airport, complain about the noise, and try to get the flight schools closed down even though that was the reason to build the airport in the first place.

Maybe I’m biased, as I myself gained my private pilot’s licence with the Oshawa Flying Club in 1995, using the facilities as they were intended. I would suggest anyone who doesn’t like the noise of aircraft flying overhead to move elsewhere, and leave the flying schools to train future airline pilots and private pilots as they were intended to do.

Peter Snowden