Last Friday, October 27, 2017, Palm City Road recorded 128 fights over their homes. They recorded another 60 during the weekend, and, today, Monday, October 30, they recorded 118 flights. At 8:15 p.m., as we post this, the planes continue to fly overhead, disrupting what’s otherwise a very pleasant, cool evening in Stuart. They note … Read More
They’re the only days of the ENTIRE YEAR 2017 that we had peaceful enjoyment of our home without being TORTURED by FLIGHT SCHOOL AIRPLANE NOISE. Today is October 27, 2017, and that makes a total of 4 days that we enjoyed our home this year. If we don’t tell the County Commission that we don’t … Read More
If you were wondering what that buzzing sound was in your ears, it wasn’t your imagination. It was, in fact, another 1500 small airplanes flying over your house during the month of August (and this is off season AND pre-customs facility), with most of those being flight school planes from Witham Field aka Stuart Airport. … Read More
Is there an air show in Stuart today? Why so many planes today in Stuart? But I thought they changed everything back? Following a relatively (used loosely) peaceful July — in any event, there was a reduction from prior months — those are the questions we received today, July 29, 2017, when, from 8 a.m. … Read More
As if it weren’t bad enough that we’ve been bombarded with single- and twin-engine planes all day every day for the past 6 months, now Witham Field is apparently permitting jets to practice over our formerly peaceful homes in western Stuart. We hate to say “I told you so” — sincerely, we hate to say … Read More
Mingled in with the spam and airport noise complaints, we occasionally receive an interesting email through this website’s contact form. Such was the case yesterday, when we received the email below. As the writer provided a name in the email itself, we believe that it’s from an upstanding and well-known member of the community. We … Read More
On June 20, 2017, we reached an unwanted milestone: We passed 11,000 flights over this previously peaceful neighborhood of more than 1,000 home owners. (Officials, take note: That equates to at least that many voters.) Mind you, this figure represents only those flights for which someone was here to record the data. Being an organization … Read More
The media has quoted Witham Field Airport Manager, George Stokus, as stating “The airport has been taking on 100 to 150 additional private passenger planes each weekend Trump has come to Mar-a-Lago because of flight restrictions imposed several airports in Palm Beach County“ and the “airport is getting at least 100 more aircraft than normal … Read More