The noise complaints are pretty ridiculous. There are no new airports so people knew what they were getting into when purchasing the property, you see the same thing around bars in the city that have been open for 50+ years. This is another case where the FAA has favored politics over safety, many noise abatement procedures involve delaying crosswind turns or other maneuvers that decrease the safety of the pattern. Just like houses have flood zones as required disclosures, maybe we should have airport zone houses where noise is expected.
If low-passes are a significant safety risk, then the FAA should prove as such and write a clear rule specific to it, IE a maximum speed over the runway. All kinds of air safety seminars + CFIs are trying to teach go-around as a normal maneuver that should be practiced regularly and then the FAA basically says a go-around could cost you your license.
I agree it’s entirely out of bounds to complain about noise from operationally necessary aircraft operations (operationally needed for flight, not that the operational need for the flight is subject to review).
I’m a lot more sympathetic to noise complaints against 2700 RPM (prop tips nearly the speed of sound), high-power, low passes that have no operational need.
If low-passes are a significant safety risk, then the FAA should prove as such and write a clear rule specific to it, IE a maximum speed over the runway. All kinds of air safety seminars + CFIs are trying to teach go-around as a normal maneuver that should be practiced regularly and then the FAA basically says a go-around could cost you your license.