Having read the article in yesterdays Birmingham Mail my opinion of the nimby's at SOAR doesn't improve. One of them was quoted as saying that if the Mahan had flown over Catherine de Barnes at that height it would have blown the village away
Now I may be wrong here but isn't the village 2 miles away from the end of 33 so any aircraft approaching from the south would be passing at approx 600ft and last time I checked all the houses were still there