I've become a part time plane spotter

Had a T28 Trojan and a Douglas A4 flying over the valley all day, the noise from the Trojan is a thing of beauty
 
I've lived near Manchester airport for most of my life. I used to plane spot as a kid, and I've always had an interest in aviation.

Recently, though, I have appreciated the silence with flights being grounded. It's been refreshing not having a plane on full power blasting overhead every five minutes or so.

I fully appreciate people have lost their jobs as a result, and as someone who has been made redundant in the past I can empathise with their situation, but I will probably find it quite depressing when flights return along with the associated noise, and talking to my neighbours, I'm not the only one.

People living near busy airports have subconsciously had their lives blighted for years, and the past 3 months or so of inactivity has brought that sharply into focus.

It's awful to think our new-found peace and quiet is about to be shattered by Easyjet and Ryanair flying people on nonessential journeys for £15 just for the sake of it.

Airlines can fuck off, and if you want to go to Italy or somewhere else for your essential holiday, go on the train, make an overnight stop part of the trip, and leave me and countless others in peace and quiet.
 
NPBlue said:
I've lived near Manchester airport for most of my life. I used to plane spot as a kid, and I've always had an interest in aviation.

Recently, though, I have appreciated the silence with flights being grounded. It's been refreshing not having a plane on full power blasting overhead every five minutes or so.

I fully appreciate people have lost their jobs as a result, and as someone who has been made redundant in the past I can empathise with their situation, but I will probably find it quite depressing when flights return along with the associated noise, and talking to my neighbours, I'm not the only one.

People living near busy airports have subconsciously had their lives blighted for years, and the past 3 months or so of inactivity has brought that sharply into focus.

It's awful to think our new-found peace and quiet is about to be shattered by Easyjet and Ryanair flying people on nonessential journeys for £15 just for the sake of it.

Airlines can fuck off, and if you want to go to Italy or somewhere else for your essential holiday, go on the train, make an overnight stop part of the trip, and leave me and countless others in peace and quiet.
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not to be rude..but.. why live or buy a house under a flight path of an international airport if you hate the noise so much? Has it not been like that for 30 odd years +?
 
manimanc said:
Lots of RAF traffic in the skies lately, have heard the odd hercules passing over offerton.
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Its always there, but you don't notice it in normal times.

Also they are using the main civil airports because they are so quiet, normally there aren't the slots to do so, but they regularly have civil airports as diversions, so learning their procedures when its quiet is helpful for the crews.
 
FogBlueInSanFran said:
It was probably me. Sorry about that. It, along with some reasoned deduction, worked a treat in the LaPorte transfer thread. And of course we have @brooksy76 at MAN to help us once they land!

I don't use it too often but I fly a lot for work, so when trying to figure out when United Airlines is going to screw me by telling me flight XXX is YY minutes late I can figure out precisely the actual multiplier of YY (usually 2-5 times YY) by tracking the inbound aircraft that will become my outbound.
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Fuck off! ;-)

And, when you get to the airport, you have to live on AIRLINE TIME, which moves in 15 minute segments depending upon the problem!
 
Further to the sad loss of life in the Pakistan Airlines crash in May, it's reported that over 30% of pilots in Pakistan have fake flying licences. They got other people to take the exam for them.

Now that is scary
 
Just sitting on the porch enjoying the smoke filled air, been noticing an uptick in commercial flights recently, a good sign I hope
 
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