A380 Noisy?
Beautiful clear cold day gave me a great view of AF A380 heading west over Camberley today pretty much dead on 1400 no contrails compared the Ryanair just ahead of it but quite lot of noise-a soft roaring is how I would describe it almost like a pre fan engine jet.
Question is-did I hear the Airbus, which whenI have seen close up at LHR seems quiet, or was there say an RAF VC10 outbound from Brize that I couldnt see but could hear (and often do).
It did really appear to be from the big Airbus but does sound carry more in todays clear cold air(my physics was never good enough) because it certainlyseemed to make much more noise than the average overflight.
Just curious -mind you there was an extraordinary amount visible in the little space constituting PB airspace at the same time- as well as the two aformentioned there were two in trail LH bound airbus 320s downwind for the LHR 09s and a north to south rear engined twin jet also contrailing.