There’s no patience on the city’s end to resolve this issue.” We’re not negligent pilots in any way, shape or form. We have tried and worked so hard to resolve this issue. “I don’t know how they expect businesses to grow at the airport. “I beg to differ,” he said of the city’s carefully cultivated reputation. So while the Torrance Airport Noise Abatement Board was finding the pair of aircraft guilty of violating the noise regulations Thursday, Lucas simply informed the board that he was moving to avoid any further issues in supposedly business-friendly Torrance. Lucas said city officials even informed him that if the wind was blowing in the wrong direction, he should simply stop flying for the day so his aircraft wouldn’t trigger noise sensors that would lead to a violation. Another has received three in the past 18 months. One of his airplanes racked up 18 violations in a single day as the pilot repeatedly practiced takeoffs and landings. Then the city’s Police Department practiced ramming cars within a few feet of the airplanes, which was not exactly the best educational environment as instructors go through preflight checks with students, he said. The airport moved his aircraft tiedown location after the occupant of an office immediately adjacent the airfield complained about the noise, he said. But the noise regulations are the final straw for Lucas and the business he founded at the airport just less than four years ago.

Calair aviation