Living not far from Biggin Hill, we regularly get spitfires flying overhead, a fantastic sight and noise. However some local residents tried a petition to stop the flights coming over the villages, thankfully the majority of people love seeing and hearing them.
I have to be quite careful that the plane noise doesn't drive me mad as a box of frogs.
I think it's different if you chose to live close to an airfield like Biggin Hill or an airport. I, knowingly, chose to live next to an outdoor festival venue, so that noise comes with the territory and we can schedule it in. A flight path that turns up expectedly seems like a different matter.
My understanding is that most airports several flight paths and ‘holding areas’ where planes circle while wait here for a slot to land. Every so often the area in use is changed so that their use can be rotated … thus giving the folk below a bit of a break … of course this also means that some different folk are now subjected to the noise … until the next rotation.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We have an airport near us but it's only used by small aircraft. They did used to have commercial flights to the Channel Islands and Isle of Man but they stopped years ago. There are rumours that it's going to be sold off for housing and that would cause far greater problems than the occasional plane. The road infrastructure is poor now, and will be 10 times worse if they build 100s of houses there.
Point taken @Dovefromabove ..... but round here they are all "corporate" types. Many can't really shoot that well and I'm guessing there will be some birds not killed outright. They expect to shoot over my garden, and think I'm being unreasonable when I object to them and their dogs all trampling the spring bulbs.
In my view the sooner the whole thing is banned the better.
Bee x
Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders
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yes, similar experience here, @Bee witched - luckily the very local shoot - the ones who would leave our gates open, shoot lead over the house and garden and shoot the phone line - has folded. We don't miss them.
I don't object to people shooting for food and to control pests if they a) are reasonably proficient and usually manage to kill the animals rather than injuring them and b) are moderately considerate of those of us who live here.
I would say though that the stag hunt are more arrogant and entitled than the pheasant shoot and a lot of them are actually locals.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The most arrogant and entitled people I've ever encountered.
Bee x
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Many can't really shoot that well and I'm guessing there will be some birds not killed outright.
They expect to shoot over my garden, and think I'm being unreasonable when I object to them and their dogs all trampling the spring bulbs.
In my view the sooner the whole thing is banned the better.
Bee x
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
I don't object to people shooting for food and to control pests if they a) are reasonably proficient and usually manage to kill the animals rather than injuring them and b) are moderately considerate of those of us who live here.
I would say though that the stag hunt are more arrogant and entitled than the pheasant shoot and a lot of them are actually locals.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”