LHR Temporary Midhurst SIDs?
Presumeably because I like aircraft and fly (as Pax)a lot I have been asked by my local residents group to attend a couple of meetings about noise from new departure route trials at LHR.
One meeting is run by HAL at Ascot racecourse and one is the res Assoc for Bagshot and Windlesham .
The problem appears to be on Westerlies from LHR with all MID departures seemingly following a precise track over the said villages rather than what appeared to be past practise of turning some flights earlier than others towards MID and thus spreading the noise around.
Could any ATCO/ATC er with knowledge of this project let me know what the background to this is please, some mutterings about increasing capacity but from my simplistic viewpoint turning aircraft earlier or later depending on their destination would seem to allow for more departures than just sending them out in trail over a single path.
I doubt anyone has a lot of problem with the endless stream of minibus types heading for Paris or the near continent as they are already pretty high but some of the late night heavies to Mauritius South Africa Nairobi etc are still pretty low over this part of the world and no doubt make their presence noticed if it is the same route every night.
Any answers appreciated.
And btw I am not opposed to aircraft noise etc , anyone who bought property in the Surrey Heath area since 1980 or so had to be aware of occasional aircraft noise and I think the issue here is that the old scheme worked well from a noise point of view so why change it.
Thanks
PB