Originally Posted by
TWOTBAGS
Queenair...
About an hour after departure I got told by ATC that he thought I must have woke up everyone in Western Sydney when I departed YSBK at 3am on a saturday morning once.
Think the Dornier 28D had the same engines or very similar - plus it was a very slow aeroplane. We used to get the occasional West German AF example returning from (old) South Wales to Germany routing over south London - you could hear them coming from miles away and probably 15 minutes later still hear them half way to Dover.
Noisiest thing round here now are the Spits at Biggin - I've yet to hear anyone complain!
The Cirrus is quite a noisy bugger too, not sure if it's the prop or what...