Oh, we have that noise from the A220 here on approach to London City, of course. But is it the flap extension (BAe146-style), or is it some harmonic from the P&W geared engines ? We get it on the ground as well.
And it really was turboprop evening yesterday. Within a short while after the An-12 there was firstly a Dash 8-Q400, not of our LCY regular Luxair, but of FlyBe, inward bound to Heathrow from Amsterdam. Now it is indeed nice to see Flybe back, but they do seem to have (as ever) chosen some oddball routes, and a small offering on Amsterdam to Heathrow against the big competition does seem strange. Then there was another An-26, following its 4-engined big brother, and that actually crossed overhead at the same moment as a Pilatus PC-12 on a perpendicular track. Which had the least engine(s), and the greatest noise, of the lot.
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