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Many years ago,I was accused of leading a pair of Phantoms at low level over a riding stable causing a horse to bolt with 2 young girls thrown out of the cart attached to said horse, resulting in one broken arm. We were there but descending into low level, well throttled back and at at least 1500ft in the descent . The RAF police, bless them, unearthed the truth by the age old technique of buying some beer in the local pub. The girls had indeed been thrown out of the cart, having lost control at least 2mins before we appeared, the one with the broken arm was filmed shovelling horse manure. I believe that later the stable owners were taken to court for false claims by their insurance company.

Retired Army Brigadier constantly complained to his local RAF Station Commander about "constant and noisy early morning take offs disturbing my peace." Where? RAF Middle Wallop. When? June 1940...

Nothing new under the sun.

I work at Norwich Airport and to be honest we know when military aircraft are about because of their noises.
In the last few weeks a coupl;e of F35s have done low-ish Runway passes and we don’t expect them to land. Therir noise is quite loud compared to all others,
Other regular Mil passes are A400Ms and 146s.
The F15s dont bother NWI at all due to their height but we may watch them on cloudless days.

Same apparently during the same period at Kenley in stockbroker country.

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Originally Posted by NAROBS (Post 10482937)

I can understand why people do complain.

Fo8king, so called "Radar calibration flights" are the bain of my life.

Every 18 months, some complete nobhead in a twin engine light commercial does repeated landing circuits for Northolt between midnight and two o'clock.

I'm in the flight path, about a mile from the NE/SE run way. So, in the depth of the quiet night (Yes, it is quiet in South Harrow at night), every ten minutes, for two hours, you get sonny-boy making a simulated approach with all the engine throttle jockeying noise that involves. Who ever heard of "Radar calibration flights" in this day and age of digital self-calibrating kit ?

Radar calibration of what ? The aircraft's on board systems or Northolt's on-ground facilities ? Surely, once the on-ground facilities are installed that's calibration done until you install new kit, unless there's lots of new building underneath the Flight Path, which there's not, as its an already a built-up 1930s suburb.

Bloody annoying. Even if it is just a "Job-for-the-boys". You just get off to sleep and he's overhead again winding-up the prop pitch.

With any luck, the change in approach path consequent on the third Heathrow runway will make this some else's problem. . . . .

N.

(Aircraft enthusiast and co-attendee of Harrow County School For Boys with Mr Portillo !)

Narobs,

You sure that isn't a Navajo doing something entirely different?

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Originally Posted by pr00ne (Post 10482980)

Narobs,

You sure that isn't a Navajo doing something entirely different?

Check your driveway . . .

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