Field Carrier Landing Practice flights, better known as "bounce hops," are noisy because the pattern altitude on downwind is 600 feet instead of 1,000 feet to replicate the numbers flown during a carrier approach and instead of pulling the power to idle upon touch down the pilots go to full power to climb back into the landing pattern and do it again.
While the outlying fields were originally built in remote areas to keep the airplanes and associated noise away from civilians, in several areas urban sprawl since World War II and most acutely since the 1980s has made remote areas not so remote anymore and that has created pressure on the U.S. Navy to modify or even curtail FCLP operations. And that, in turn, could lead to the associated Naval Air Station being closed.
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