I love aircraft and I love flying as a PPL but I cannot see how a third runway at Heathrow is going to solve any long term problems with capacity.
I've lived in Fulham below the 27L and 27R approaches ever since I was born and even I now get fed up with the noise from aircraft flying over every 2 mins from early morning till late at night. The recent 777 incident at Heathrow also concerns me. Had it "landed" any earlier it could have killed hundreds of people on the ground as well as those in the aircraft.
I wish they'd just bulldoze Lydd and turn it into the new "London Airport" and move all the Heathrow flights there. Failing that why not reclaim some land from the sea like they did in Hong Kong and build a new airport in the Thames Estuary.
