[singpilot]

I feel as you do, I fly for a living. It pisses me off that people do move to the airport, then start calling in noise complaints.

I'd be out there with you, nosegear first if necessary.

Unless, of course, the mayor ordered bulldozers out to rip up the runways in the middle of the night. Mayor Daley did this with Meigs Airport in Chicago not too long ago. Said he was tired of the noise crap, tired of spending city money to support a private airport that was owned by the city, and plowed it up. The remaining airplanes there had to take off from the taxiway, which was torn up after the last plane left.

I believe he said "It's my airport, I can do with it what I want.... Sue me."