After about three years without, the flight path has come back right over my house (literally). Living nowhere near an airport it feels kind of outrageous to have the house shaken planes every minute or so. (It still makes me want to move house).
From the flight tracker, you can see that planes form a holding pattern over London as the circle from the west, coming in low before landing. This is why the planes come over so often - set on a specific, set path at a specific distance, far from an airport.
Live tracking can be seen in the link. I don't think it helps much to know exactly which plane has gone roaring overhead, but at least it offers evidence that is as bad as it feels to be.
Luckily no flight paths here, but definitely on a Badger path, our security camera is catching one/two every night at the moment, and the lawn is looking a bit Somme like.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
No flights here, but fairly frequent low flying helicopters which shake the foundations. Mainly a summertime thing.
I honestly don't know how people manage to live near a large airport. 😱
At the moment, the noise bother here is being caused by a fox roaming the neighbourhood in the wee small hrs barking, presumably out on the tiles looking for a mate. Last yr, it all settled down after a few weeks, so 🤞.
We live not to far away from Waddington , a RAF/ NATO air base and the Red Arrows are now based there so they have been having lots of practice displays this Autumn & Winter
Last year the RAF had several joint exercises with different countries , the one I remember particularly was with the Sudia Arabian Air Force
I rather miss the plane noise since our local airport (DSA) closed. Mind you, it wasn't frequent. Which I guess is why it closed. Back in the day, the annual comings and goings for the Finningley air show back in the day were always interesting.
I used to work in Lincoln, and I quite enjoyed seeing the Red Arrows, the Sentry (AWACS) planes and various other RAF planes, and occasionally visiting aircraft from other countries' airforces. I had a colleague who was ex-RAF and would tell me exactly what I was seeing, if I didn't recognise it.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
I'm not under a flight path, but about twice a year we can get very low flying fighter jets come over. I've no idea where they come from, but they frighten the bejeezus out of me if I'm gardening.
I'm also seeing lots of badgers on our trail cam @punkdoc .... no lawn damage (yet!) but they've helped themselves to all the crab apples they can reach. Also deer, hares, some red squirrels .... and LOTS of ruddy pheasants.
Bee x
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We have Red Deer here too, and when they come into the garden they are very destructive. I saw 4 large stags on our lane last week. Last year we had Muntjac for the first time, their hobby seems to be eating the heads off Roses.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
We sometimes get Spitfires over our village. They practice loops and similar and one time I saw one fly straight up then float back down like an autumn leaf dropping from a tree. Gardening while a couple of them tear around the sky is quite something.
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At the moment, the noise bother here is being caused by a fox roaming the neighbourhood in the wee small hrs barking, presumably out on the tiles looking for a mate. Last yr, it all settled down after a few weeks, so 🤞.
Last year the RAF had several joint exercises with different countries , the one I remember particularly was with the Sudia Arabian Air Force
I'm also seeing lots of badgers on our trail cam @punkdoc .... no lawn damage (yet!) but they've helped themselves to all the crab apples they can reach. Also deer, hares, some red squirrels .... and LOTS of ruddy pheasants.
Bee x
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
Last year we had Muntjac for the first time, their hobby seems to be eating the heads off Roses.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border