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I used to live near Heathrow and its flight path when it was flying and never got tired of seeing (and hearing) it

dcminter 3y ago
I used to live out at Reading (about 30 miles away) and we still had to pause conversations and phone calls when it went past. It was VERY LOUD. I also worked at BA for a while. Everyone who worked for BA would glance at their watch when they heard it take off - the BA001 flight to NYC at 10am (I think? Or was it 11am?) was a good indicator of how smoothly our systems & the airport's were running - if it was late we probably had a problem. Finally... coming in to land at the north runway you could see it directly overhead from the staff car park for Viscount House (where most of IT was based). The noise of it usually set off half the car alarms and you could see a huuuuge trail of dirty brown imperfectly burnt fuel with the engines throttled back. Good times!
- timthorn 3y ago
  I lived there too. When I was at school, our morning break was timed so Concorde would take off while we were out of lessons. Every now and then we'd have an extended playtime because of delays at Heathrow.
hydrogen7800 3y ago
And I lived on the other end, about 5 miles from the approach end of runways 22R and 22L at JFK. I always ran to the window when it came by. Big planes would sometimes rattle the dishes in the kitchen. I now live ~10 miles from a relatively busy airport with business/charter jet traffic, and its barely noticeable to me. But lots of noise complaints in my town and neighboring towns.
- quickthrower2 3y ago
  Also 10 miles from a main airport and on flight path. Sometimes get plane shadows! Not too bad noise wise as they are at 3000ft I think. And either I got used to it but swear they have got quieter over time.
- Marsymars 3y ago
  > I now live ~10 miles from a relatively busy airport with business/charter jet traffic, and its barely noticeable to me. But lots of noise complaints in my town and neighboring towns. Direction of the runways matters a lot. I live fairly close to an airport, but was paying attention to the relevant info when house-hunting. The map for my city (Calgary): https://maps.calgary.ca/AVPA/ https://maps.calgary.ca/AVPA/
LightBug1 3y ago
Same ... I remember being in awe, seeing it high up above our school ...

I used to live out at Reading (about 30 miles away) and we still had to pause conversations and phone calls when it went past. It was VERY LOUD. I also worked at BA for a while. Everyone who worked for BA would glance at their watch when they heard it take off - the BA001 flight to NYC at 10am (I think? Or was it 11am?) was a good indicator of how smoothly our systems & the airport's were running - if it was late we probably had a problem. Finally... coming in to land at the north runway you could see it directly overhead from the staff car park for Viscount House (where most of IT was based). The noise of it usually set off half the car alarms and you could see a huuuuge trail of dirty brown imperfectly burnt fuel with the engines throttled back. Good times!

timthorn 3y ago
I lived there too. When I was at school, our morning break was timed so Concorde would take off while we were out of lessons. Every now and then we'd have an extended playtime because of delays at Heathrow.

hydrogen7800 3y ago

And I lived on the other end, about 5 miles from the approach end of runways 22R and 22L at JFK. I always ran to the window when it came by. Big planes would sometimes rattle the dishes in the kitchen. I now live ~10 miles from a relatively busy airport with business/charter jet traffic, and its barely noticeable to me. But lots of noise complaints in my town and neighboring towns.

quickthrower2 3y ago
Also 10 miles from a main airport and on flight path. Sometimes get plane shadows! Not too bad noise wise as they are at 3000ft I think. And either I got used to it but swear they have got quieter over time.
Marsymars 3y ago
> I now live ~10 miles from a relatively busy airport with business/charter jet traffic, and its barely noticeable to me. But lots of noise complaints in my town and neighboring towns. Direction of the runways matters a lot. I live fairly close to an airport, but was paying attention to the relevant info when house-hunting. The map for my city (Calgary): https://maps.calgary.ca/AVPA/ https://maps.calgary.ca/AVPA/

LightBug1 3y ago

Same ... I remember being in awe, seeing it high up above our school ...