Whidbey Island Jet Noise

Naval Outlying Field is a military airport located two miles southeast of Coupeville, WA. The airport is owned and operated by the United States Navy.
OLF supports day & night Field Carrier Landing Practice operations by the US Navy's EA-18G Growler. OLF is seen as an ideal airfield for carrier training due to its remote location & low lighting, allowing pilots & crew to have a similar experience to landing aboard an aircraft carrier.
A number of low flying aircraft can be seen flying around Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Oak Harbor and Coupeville, Washington for Field Carrier Landing Practices. This is something potential buyers should take into consideration before purchasing a home.
What's it like landing on a carrier? vimeo.com/2697...
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[@johnh4280]

The sound of Freedom

[@jhayes1944]

I live directly under one of the flight paths near OLF and can honestly say the noise is deminimis. I love watching the planes go over and have no complaints. Every real estate transaction in the clearly defined noise zones here on the island requires the buyer to sign a waiver acknowledging the issue. If you bought property and then complained, the problem is you, not the Navy. Fly Navy!

[@schmitice]

Ault field has been there since before WW2, air fields are noisy, if you buy a house near there and expect not to hear the jets, that’s your fault, don’t buy near a military airfield

[@williambrodmanvi5944]

The noise created by the engines of the Growlers are far less intrusive than the straight jets of the Grumman A-6 & EA-6B'S That came before them these newer aircraft are almost silent in every angle you encounter of them until they are flying directly away from you! Far better than hearing them from any and every direction they may be from you. I cant see them being anywhere near the noise poluters that they have seen to replace. Small thanks for large relief is in order if anything! The men flying them have of their hands full of their own lives trying to get abourd a tossing ship in the dead of night maybe the pass that would have seen to offend of someone was the one that gives them the confidence to do so! !Allowing them the chance to come home to their family and your neighbors! I know that the sound of those jets have haunted my nights more than most wondering if i'd ever again hear of the one that would see to have my father return home. The noise over time becomes settling and not one i would believe to see of anyone full of regret for purchasing of a home at least not on of their account. That however is only my opinion an opinion of someone the noise of those jets has see to have had of a large effect. May God Bless all who may endure of the noise of these jets and all those who found of their untimely end in of them, their familys listening for the sound of every next one of them to again and again bring of them home! If of nothing else that sound makes for a lot of really proud kids. Go Navy!

[@Jhorak101]

That is why Tyndall AFB FL own all that land on the Island down to Mexico Beach AND REFUSES to sell it or let developers build on it. Because afterwards they be griping about the jet noise. Just like they do now in Valparaiso Florida right out side Eglin AFB FL with the F-35. And you got the same thing going on around Camp Bullis on the north end of San Antonio TX. Homes being built around military base that existed before homes did. Remember these bases bring jobs and revenue you got to take the good with the bad and give and take. YOU knew the risk.