These FAQ's  are specifically for the Ventura County Airports. If anyone thinks my answers are incorrect or misleading, please contact me.  I'm willing to be swayed by the force of your argument.

Q: Doesn't the airport's Air Traffic Control Tower (ATCT) control the altitude of the airplanes?

A: No. Literally and figuratively the pilot controls the altitude of the airplane. The FAA's Flight Standard District Office in Van Nuys is responsible for enforcing FAA regulations. The ATCT may assign an altitude to an airplane, but the ATCT  has no enforcement authority.

Q: Can the ATCT report pilots as being in violation of the FAA low flying regulations?

A: Yes. But there is a problem with the ATCT reporting a low flying airplane. The ATCT  doesn't have a way of determining the airplane's altitude. 

Q: How come the airplanes fly straight-in over my house late at night when it is "prohibited" by the Department of Ventura County Airports' noise abatement procedures?

A: Unfortunately, the Department of Ventura County Airport does not have authority over how the pilots  fly their airplanes. 

 Q:  Why don't the noise abatement procedures have a single mention of any noise level restrictions?

A: There are no noise level restrictions on the airplanes that fly into the county airports.  Some of the Gulfstream III's which fly into the airport are nosier than some Boeing 727's and DC-9's. Outside the airport's boundary I measured a Gulfstream's noise level to be 95 dB. This noise level is 30 times higher than what the FAA says is the noise limit for people being able to hold conversations. However, the noise abatement procedures do mention altitude as a method of noise abatement.

Q: What about the promises that were made to the citizens in the mid 1970's that no jets would be flying into the Camarillo Airport?

A:  What the FAA or the federal government decides to do supercedes what the state, county or cities would like to do at the Ventura County Airports.

Q: Why are homeowners complaining about planes flying over their homes when they knew the airport was there when they bought their homes?

A: Because the homeowners didn't know that many pilots would ignore the FAA regulations and the County's noise abatement procedures. (And there are lot of us, including me, who bought their homes before there was a Camarillo Airport.)