On the subject of STOL:

Joe:

Why are the Porter aircraft flying so low over the homes at Lakeshore
Blvd. west and Royal York Rd. Yesterday - a holiday Monday - our family get
together was disrupted by a terrifying demonstration of not one Dash 8 but
three within one hour on a very clear day at 1:17,1:19 and 2:20. Coming
out of the south west and over 6 kilometers from the Island Airport
and as low as a thousand feet over our heads. Their approaches to the
Island airport are way beyond Porters designated circles out over lake Ontario,
where they belong. I keep calling "noise management office" in an attempt to stop this abuse and of late the overflights of South Etobicoke are more frequent and our quality of life slipping, as these Porter flights try to fly under the lumbering 747s flying into TIA. If we can t take these Porter pilots to task over these infringements, how pray God are we going to deal with Continental Air or that other belly flopping Airline? The Q400 airplanes are not STOL planes because they behave like S.T.U.K.A.s, how do I know? because my father was there.

Richard