[QUOTE=arf04;8308318]The article mentions a 3000 foot height, and if I remember this right IFR space is 5000 feet and higher so planes would be lower than normal. I could be wrong on that (acpilot could answer that for us).QUOTE]

The most common cleared altitude for a visual and instrument approach is 3000 until the final approach area. For runway 26s this would be the Alex Fraser bridge.
The few aircraft that fly over these whiners at 6000'+. And are at power settings close to idle. Yes some do fly at around 3000' but mostly on days when the ceiling is lower.
Most bad weather days the approach is to 08.
I've seen some of the letters to the editor that these people have been writing. Complaints of fuel dripping in back yards, planes so low they can be touched. Property values will drop. The list of ignorance goes on.
Unless these people never travel by air they shouldn't complain.
Anyone who has seen the price of houses along SW Marine Dr., knows airplane noise only raises the property values!