Noise polution

[kwicky]

Do we need to suffer in silence?

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Travel/Question 398066.html

[Oneeyedvic]

Well on the basis that you asked the question 2 days ago and received no real answers - maybe people don't actually see it as 'suffering'

[kwicky]

You obviously haven't noticed, there were so many questions on that topic my question disappeared from the radar. Why do you think the AB editor keeps his question permanently on the top of the page? Also this question has appeared on our TV news today.

[kwicky]

It wants to restructure Britain�s existing air corridors and add new ones in preparation for a doubling of the number of flights over the UK from 2.4m a year today to almost 5m by 2030. A confidential aeronautical map drawn up by Nats points to sharp increases in the number of aircraft using the 15 or so air corridors that criss-cross Britain, and the creation of several new flight paths and six new stacking areas where aircraft fly in circles while waiting for landing slots.
If approved, Nats�s plans would mean hundreds of thousands of people - perhaps millions - suffering from aircraft noise where there was little or none before. They would also turn the aviation industry into one of Britain�s biggest generators of greenhouse gases.
His plight illustrates what could lie in store for hundreds of thousands of people across central England if Nats�s plans are given the go-ahead.
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[redcrx]

I live below one of the stacking areas in suffolk, we are not that far from stanstead as the crow (or plane) flies. We dont suffer from any noise polution. One of the lower stacks further towards the airport is where my Father In Law lived and I never noticed any noise there either.

With more and more people wanting to travel abroad rather than holiday in our own beautiful country there will always be the need for more planes and somewhere to hold them until landing time. I think that if theye were over the North sea theyd have to be at a higher altitude and wouldnt that affect the flight paths of other planes?

[kwicky]

So the independent report above has got it wrong about millions being affected by noise from stacking? As you say there is stacking taking place already over Suffolk so I cannot see a problem by moving it to the North Sea which is a comparable distance from Stansted. I'm not sure why you say they need to be higher over the sea, I would think the reverse is true?

[redcrx]

If they were further away from the airport do you not think that they would need to be higher so to approach the airport (when their slot was ready) from the correct height?
If they were at a low holding height over the sea then they would have to fly over many more homes at a lower height, thus affecting many more people with the noise which you are concerned about.

Did i say the report was wrong? I simply stated that under the 2 stacking areas here I do not find that there is any affect from it. We live in a town where there is background noise all the time from roads, businesses, schools etc. Plane noise does not affect that.

[WendyS]

I lived directly under a flight path and in the summer, when out in the garden or with the windows open the noise can sometimes be unbearable. I'd happily abolish cheap flights if it would reduce the noise level, especially at bedtime. But other forms of noise pollution equally irritate me. Piped pop music in shops and pubs, and the infuriating habit of TV producers to add background music to virtually every programme, whether it's appropriate or not. What's wrong with silence and peace and quiet? With everybodys' lives so stressful these day I would have though more people would be campaigning for less noise.

[Oneeyedvic]

"I'd happily abolish cheap flights if it would reduce the noise level" - I'm guessing that you can afford expensive flights?

Presumably you knew that you were on the flight plan when you purchased the house?

We used to live opposite a pub and really didn't have any problems with the noise - some neighbours moved in and complained constantly - you have to ask - why move in to a place near a busy town centre pub?

[kwicky]

Nowadays I find it almost impossible to get away from aircraft noise where ever you are. I go to the Lake District and you get ear shattering noise where the RAF practice low level flights through the valleys. The same with North Wales. My son suffers from it in the peak district. Flight paths into and around airports are so diffuse the noise footprint affects a very large area.
Now carbon emissions are not being taken for aircraft polution. If the government wishes to treat the problem seriously they should include all carbon emissions not just a poor hard up motorist trying to get to work. Failure to do so will consign these grandiose ideas to the waste paper bin.