Noise compaints -Hercules.
Watton Airfield
Slight thread creep but the major downer in disposing of Watton is that nobody considered the VGS on site, currently several hundred cadets in East Anglia have no where to glide from (other VGS full up it appears) until a new home is found and the move paid for.
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One really couldn't give a ****. 10 years on Hercules means I don't have to buy an expensive stereo . . .
Just think what all those NIMBYs could save.
I'm not 12, my wife reckons it's closer to 5 - works for me
Just think what all those NIMBYs could save.
I'm not 12, my wife reckons it's closer to 5 - works for me
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Well done Shack, you connected the name with perhaps being overweight and spotted the age too. New monocle? You followed up with more of your usual boring old drivel. Shack's blah blah blah, Malta blah blah blah, hypothermia blah blah blah.
Absolutely fascinating.
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Absolutely fascinating.
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Well done Shack, you connected the name with perhaps being overweight and spotted the age too. New monocle? You followed up with more of your usual boring old drivel. Shack's blah blah blah, Malta blah blah blah, hypothermia blah blah blah.
Absolutely fascinating.
Absolutely fascinating.
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Absolutely fascinating.
Flap62,
Suppose it's living adjacent to a railway line; you can't really complain about the noise of trains, can you?
I live in a usually quiet house (when the kids and their offspring aren't visiting) with just a little aviation noise when LHR is landing easterly.
From time to time I sleep in houses next to main roads and I notice the increased noise; the permanent occupants do not. They have chosen to live there and have become inured to the noise so why not those who buy a house close to an airfield?
Suppose it's living adjacent to a railway line; you can't really complain about the noise of trains, can you?
I live in a usually quiet house (when the kids and their offspring aren't visiting) with just a little aviation noise when LHR is landing easterly.
From time to time I sleep in houses next to main roads and I notice the increased noise; the permanent occupants do not. They have chosen to live there and have become inured to the noise so why not those who buy a house close to an airfield?
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Is that data openly available?
See page three of this report from Air Commodore J Ager.
http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafbrizenorton...B1E9397E22.pdf
If I lived next to a railway line and the operating company introduced a new piece of rolling stock that made considerably more noise and tested it outside my house in the middle of the night then, yes, I would be annoyed and complain.
It is not the noise from the airfield per se that the residents are complainng about. It is the change in noise caused by poorly thought out integration and a certain level of thoughtlessness by some LYN personel that is causing the problem.
It is not the noise from the airfield per se that the residents are complainng about. It is the change in noise caused by poorly thought out integration and a certain level of thoughtlessness by some LYN personel that is causing the problem.
If I lived next to a railway line and the operating company introduced a new piece of rolling stock that made considerably more noise....
The reply from the Cloggy mate was along the lines of "Yes, we know the Phantom is noisier than the Harrier. But we prefer the sound of either to the sound of the Stuka. Now, f*** off, Fritz!"......
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ooooh, I'm being bullied help. Like being savaged by a limp wet lettuce leaf.
The Shack 37 and DX Wombat double act. Doesn't that conjure up some weird images?
The Shack 37 and DX Wombat double act. Doesn't that conjure up some weird images?
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so why not those who buy a house close to an airfield?
I lived in St Ives for many years and the noises from Wyton and Alconbury never kept me awake. Yes you could hear USAF Herc noise from Alconbury when the wind was right.
All sorts of complaints when 51 moved to Waddo. The locals had become used to the Sentry - relatively quiet. They had forgotten what had been there previously. Many had bought houses next to a military airbase. It gets noisy.
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Hmmmm Elvington has just been hit with it.
Airfield bosses fined over noise (From York Press)
I used to live in one of the none double glazed, none soundproofed blocks at Brize for 5 years and my end room faced onto the runway...... People can't understand how I sleep today through the sound of the neighbours cat farting at 50 yards when they get up in arms about the most unobtrusive of noise.
Airfield bosses fined over noise (From York Press)
I used to live in one of the none double glazed, none soundproofed blocks at Brize for 5 years and my end room faced onto the runway...... People can't understand how I sleep today through the sound of the neighbours cat farting at 50 yards when they get up in arms about the most unobtrusive of noise.
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Like being savaged by a limp wet lettuce leaf.
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Hmmmm Elvington has just been hit with it.
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and a certain level of thoughtlessness by some LYN personel that is causing the problem.
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Early '90s, Saturday night/sunday morning F4 engine cx to be ready for airtest on the Sunday. Clearance for full engine ground runs at any time from the Staish 
One phone call to ATC so they could turn the lights on the running pan and off we went for some fun Engine started at 00:20 Sunday morning and full afterburner lit at 00:35, engine shut down at 00:45. Don't get many chances to wake everybody up and got about 40-50 complaints into Eng Ops. All wrapped up by 04:00 after a further idle run in the HAS at 02:00. Jet Noise the Sound of Freedom.
One phone call to ATC so they could turn the lights on the running pan and off we went for some fun Engine started at 00:20 Sunday morning and full afterburner lit at 00:35, engine shut down at 00:45. Don't get many chances to wake everybody up and got about 40-50 complaints into Eng Ops. All wrapped up by 04:00 after a further idle run in the HAS at 02:00. Jet Noise the Sound of Freedom.