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Old 26th Apr 2019, 06:56
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Expressflight
 
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I usually have a lot of respect for LTNman's posts but there seems a sense of double standards creeping in over the last few days. Looking through his posts for March 2018, when it became clear that LTN would be very restricted in its overnight movements for S2018, there was no sense of it being good news for residents. Indeed he focused on LTN becoming "an 18 hour airport for bizjets" and his tone was that this was a bad thing: "ironic in the year the airport gets a capacity boost it finds itself having to turn business away". Someone at that time posted "according to the BBC, noise complaints are up 800% at LTN" to which his response was "most of the complaints come from a handful of people" - not much sympathy shown there.

As far as his use of the engine run bay blast walls/banking at LTN as a fair comparison with an aircraft at SEN idling on a taxiway waiting for line-up is concerned, well the noise levels being mitigated are hardly of the same magnitude.
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