Objective View: Complaints About Hovercraft
In trying to create objective articles about hovercraft, there is an extensive use of Google to find common issues for and against the use of the craft. Searching on such phrases as residential complaints about hovercraft produces not a single result. Various conjugations of that phrase or similar produces the same.
Keep in mind, there are complaints to be found about hovercraft, but they are seemingly exclusive to the do it yourself hovercraft kits.
This in itself is an impressive feat! Hovercraft have been used for over 30 years now commercially and there are no complaints easily findable.
Any other public transportation method has uncountable complaints due to the impact the vehicles have. Anyone stuck behind a bus in traffic has a complaint about them. Generally, buses are ponderous and produce all sorts of noxious fumes and generally disrupt the flow of traffic. Airports get a myriad of complaints for all sorts of real and niggly reasons.
Other than complaints on kit built personal hovercraft there are some noise related complaints that can be found about PERSONAL hovercraft. Usually, these are either inexpensive models or racing models or personal craft.
Modern mass transit hovercraft are about as loud as a bus. Considering that hovercraft are larger than a bus, use propellers for propulsion, carry more passengers and cargo than a bus and can go virtually anywhere, this is very impressive.
Birds do not even really mind hovercraft.
Again, racing hovercraft can be very loud, but anyone who has seen a car race knows that their is a massive difference between a built for speed automobile and the common personal use vehicle. Racing vehicles just don’t care about anything but raw horsepower.
According to Google, hovercraft are probably the least annoying of all methods of bulk people moving. Contrary to what might be assumed.