Aircraft noise -

[fabfor]

Yes, thanks Saskia.

Signed. 695 of 800.

[bobbsy]

697

[toto]

Easterly winds :-)))

Enjoy this quiet Saturday everyone !!

[Anton LaVey]

Otta Wrote:

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> I love this thread. Fazer71 is by far my favourite

> contributer to this forum.

I agree

Just reading through the planes have been driving me a little crazy too.

[toto]

Easterly winds ! YIPPEE !!

[fabfor]

Friend from Germany yesterday: "No more planes? ". The garden feels so peaceful.

[jamesb]

Who'd have thought that such a prolonged period of alternate wind direction would be so life changing...

[geh]

first plane this morning 3.16 am

[pop9770]

Yep f##ing makes me so angry! There's really no need for Heathrow air traffic control to send every plane over the same for path they could easily spread them over a wider area and make our lives more bearable.

[toto]

geh Wrote:

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> first plane this morning 3.16 am

First plane is from Hong Kong. It normally lands around 04:30am, but arrives even earlier with tailwinds :-(

By the way, to all these people making no difference whether the Heathrow bound planes fly above us or not, have a listen this morning ! So quiet :-) !

[kibris]

The flight path moves in the summer

[ianr]

geh Wrote: at 11:39 PM on Fri 3 June

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> first plane this morning 3.16 am

It doesn't show up on http://webtrak5.bksv.com/lhr4. The first plane shown in our vicinity yesterday morning was LX345 LHR->ZRH, flying east over Thornton Heath at 06:16, at 10,000 feet. There were four more in the following hour, all also eastbound at 5-9,000 feet and no more north than Penge.

http://www.heathrow.com/arrivals shows first arrival BA032 from HK, at 04:49. I went back to Webtrak to check it. It came in over New Barnet and started a U-turn over Marlow to land.

[geh]

really, maybe I dreamt it?, although, I was already awake, and heard a plane passing over (otherwise I would't have posted that I did!)

do you doubt me?

geh

[klove]

Easterlies and 32 degrees.. Perfect garden weather!

[pop9770]

Only flights into city airport today.

They're fast and only every ten mins hardly noticeable.

Unlike the Heathrow ones.

If only it could be like this every day. :(

[flyer22]

has to be the worst sunday yet we've got them every 20-30secs today - have signed the petition only 49 signatures left to go

[Elphinstone's Army]

This morning, (3.16)? I awoke thinking the MotherShip was landing on the roof, awful roar.

There is no respite today. I keep windows facing East closed, as the larger planes seem to change gear over Barry Road, hence the screaming engines we oft times hear. And consider the pollution.

[flyer22]

Agreed - they do seem to be flying lower or at least more overhead as the noise is a lot louder than normal.

Action Group time?

[DulwichFox]

flyer22 Wrote:

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> has to be the worst sunday yet we've got them

> every 20-30secs today - have signed the petition

> only 49 signatures left to go

Nonsense.. Planes into Heathrow normally fly 5 miles apart.. but can be as close as 3 miles.

So 5 miles in 20 secs.. 15 miles a min. 900 mph.

3 miles in 20 secs.. 9 miles a min. 540 mph.

I do not think so.

Planes are usually 1.5 - 2 mins apart.

5 miles in 1.5 mins. 200mph

5 miles in 2.0 mins .150pmh

That is more realist for an aircraft on final approach.

DulwichFox

[rendelharris]

You're sort of both right - Fox is right about the frequency, but of course the noise precedes the planes and lingers after they've passed, so (from our garden at least) the actual periods of silence do only last twenty to thirty seconds.

[Jah Lush]

I've timed it before and Fox is right. Around every two minutes peak time Sunday during the summer. Very busy flight path today. Woke me up around 6am this morning and it's been pretty much continuous ever since. It also being very warm and leaving windows open to keep cool doesn't help.

[flyer22]

So not nonsense at all then - bit quick off the mark there Foxy.

[DulwichFox]

flyer22 Wrote:

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> So not nonsense at all then - bit quick off the

> mark there Foxy.

It is nonesense .. did you not read anything others have said..

Every 20 seconds..?? 3 planes a minute. 180 planes an hour..

That IS nonsense

DulwichFox

[flyer22]

Not if you are talking about AIRCRAFT NOISE which if you look carefully is the subject of this thread.

I think I'll wear your tail as tie!

[aerie]

It's exhausting, having to wake up enough at 3.30 onward to close the bedroom windows which face south east. If they are closed all night it's too hot and stuffy and sleep is elusive.