London Heathrow 6am madness
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Published 2024-07-20
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I used to be an estate agent and we’re couldn’t sell a house backing onto the motorway, then one day a deaf couple walked in, they had the right price range and we were all so excited. When we got to the house the first thing they said was “what’s that noise?”
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That’s too close for comfort in my opinion. Scary close.
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I stayed in a flat there for one night with a family member. I was told about the noise but I was woken at 6am and nearly jumped out of bed with fright. It was the horrendous noise of aircraft coming in. It went on every 3 minutes after that. How the heck anyone sleeps there amazed me
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There's quite a famous episode of 'Place in the Sun' where the couple (especially the wife) are incredibly fussy & picky, and she finds something negative to say about every room of every house they're shown. She's especially focussed on noise. Then they get shown one house that she seems to love. They go out onto the balcony. You can see her ears twitching then she says, "what's that noise?". The presenter says, "that's the sea". "No" says the wife, "it's too noisy" 🤣🤣🤣 true story
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That noise pollution must be a misery.
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If you weren't an aviation enthusiast living here would be an absolute nightmare...but me, I'd love it!
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Imagine trying to have a cup of tea in the garden, the smell of jet fuel must be immense
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And people blame farmers for global warming?
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We live on the approach to Runway 26 at Gatwick about 20 miles from the airport. Flights come over in the Summer at about one every 2 minutes but at least they’re usually at between three and four thousand feet. They don’t worry us as we’re interested in aviation. But it’s surprising how many people make a conscious decision to move very near to Gatwick Airport then complain about the noise or about airport expansion plans. If you don’t want aircraft noise then don’t live anywhere near an airport!
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My mum used to say you could see the pilots eyeballs as they came into land.
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Would scare the hell out of me! Having a panic attack just seeing this!
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Windows open,6am...there's your alarm clock 😆
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As a 16 year old apprentice, I was sent to an engineering college on 4 month block release, and the company got me a b and b next to heathrow Airport directly under the flight path. Now this was 1972 to 1974 , 6àm first plane ,till midnight last plane, single glazed windows then as well not tripleglazed as now, i thought I would never get used to it but after a few months slept like a log. The problem was when I came home, it was to quite
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Unbelievable! That would drive me literally insane !
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My daughter lives in Egham. During Covid lock down, she couldn't sleep because it was too quiet
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I remember landing in Hong Kong in 1976 when you came down between high rises, could look into apartments.
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Yep As a student, I spent 4 months renting in Hounslow, under the flight path. Triple glazing helps, but no fun in the garden. You get used to it, but not choose to live there.
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This is nuts! It is at present the fourth busiest airport in the world.
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My sister lived down there as a student. It was exiting at first when I visited her to see and photograph the planes so close. Soon as my camera was empty the excitement very quickly vanished - every 30 seconds there was a massive plane flying low overhead.😬
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I live a bit further out and here at least you do just zone out. The only one you couldn’t ignore was Concorde, which made the furniture rattle, but it was only twice a day and you forgave it because it was Concorde
