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Old 27th Apr 2008, 11:01
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jollyrog
 
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What a whinger.

I bought my house in South East London in 1992, long before I had an interest in aviation. One of the first things I noted about this part of town, compared to West London where I'd grown up, was the lack of aircraft noise.

Then the expansion of London City and the runway extension came along. I'm now right under the path for approaches to runway 10, which seems to be the preferred approach. They fly over South East London before making a turn somewhere around Battersea Bridge to Final. One every two minutes or so, it seems.

I'd swap this anyday for a few microlights and a parachute plane. These countryside NIMBYs get far too much air time. There are hundreds of thousands of people (if not millions) around the country who are blighted by REAL aircraft noise and many of us didn't have it when we chose to live where we do.

But, it's modern life and we just get on with it.

Ignore her, her ranting makes no difference to anything anyway. As she points out, the law isn't on her side.
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