Re: Richard & Mary Willhardt's Aug. 13 letter, "Too many airplanes":
"Far too many airplanes" would be more precise -- and not only on weekends, but all the time.
No matter where I go, the drone of small aircraft engines seems to follow. Aircraft noise in East Ventura is like a rerun of the attack on Pearl Harbor at times. The area is an aircraft noise hub, as it is directly under the northwest-bound departure path from Camarillo Airport. Adding to the cacophony is the low-flying, short-haul traffic zigzagging between Oxnard and Santa Paula airports. Then, late at the night, low-flying helicopters rattle our windows.
The worst offenders are twin-engine aircraft that appear to roost at Camarillo Airport, as their number has increased markedly in the last few years.
It is time our county supervisors realized that western Ventura County is no longer sparsely populated farmland but a large residential area whose residents are subjected to a daily stream of irritating noise for the pleasure and profit of a few. Putting some limits on the amount of air traffic into and out of our local airports is long overdue.
-- Alfred Lutz, Ventura