Dublin Airport flight Paths

WayKay

Hi all,

I was just wondering does anyone know as to why there has been a busy flight path change coming out from Dublin airport? There seems to be alot of larger sized planes coming out from Dublin airport and over the back of my house which is in Artane, Dublin 5. Very busy path at the moment. I have now timed the flights and they are on average about every two minutes.

Very loud and big to say the least. Not exactly acting like the best neighbour in the world considering we have a new born Happening now for two days in a row. It did stop for a few hours last night but back to the same thing again. This never happened before except in the evenings at about 5pm for a half hour tops.

Is there anyone I can contact about this?? or the crying baby HELP!!!

Thanks.

b318isp

There is a southerly wind, so aircraft are taking off in that direction rather than the more usual East-West runway.

Wise Old Elf

Strong winds from the South mean Dublin is using runway 16/34 the "alternative runway", taking off south, which means you're probably directly under their current flight path.

Most of the time, runway 10/28 is in use as winds are more often west/easterly.
Have a look at Google maps
https://maps.google.ie/maps?q=map+dublin&hl=en&ll=53.414136,-6.251049&spn=0.06231,0.154324&hnear=Dublin,+County+Dublin&t=m&z=13

You'll see the direction of the 16/34 runway and how they're flying over you.
Hard as it might be, a friend of mine has a house near Blanchardstown, and they're nearly always on the flight path. House was built with triple glazing though, for that exact reason.

Suasdaguna1

Waykay, southerly winds will pick up later meaning the flight path will continue over your house tonight......the good news is the wind is forecast to veer onto a south westerly direction by 5-6ish 2m morning and they'll be using the westerly runway again so you'll get a sleep in, in the morn.

EchoIndia

Luckily for the OP the preferred (and longer) runway 10/28 at DUB means that his area will experience minimal aircraft noise over an average year. As others have stated, in situations of strong southerly or northerly winds the cross-runway 16/34 will be used for takeoffs or landings. This is for aircraft performance and safety reasons.

If you had lived in the same spot 20 or 30 years ago you would have experienced real aircraft noise, as the earlier jets did not have the modern engines which are quiet by comparison.
http://youtu.be/tYASNV4E-hQ

KCAccidental

EchoIndia wrote: »

Luckily for the OP the preferred (and longer) runway 10/28 at DUB means that his area will experience minimal aircraft noise over an average year. As others have stated, in situations of strong southerly or northerly winds the cross-runway 16/34 will be used for takeoffs or landings. This is for aircraft performance and safety reasons.

If you had lived in the same spot 20 or 30 years ago you would have experienced real aircraft noise, as the earlier jets did not have the modern engines which are quiet by comparison.
http://youtu.be/tYASNV4E-hQ

I grew up under one of the the final approaches to heathrow back in the 80's. now that was loud!

Lapin

See post 3.

thomasj

I see they are back using the alternative runaway again not surprising given that there are some strong southerly winds out there at the moment.

Wise Old Elf

Slightly off topic, but I'm a little bit of a nervous flyer. For some reason I quite dislike landings in Dublin, they're usually bumpy enough, but you can usually get your bearings when landing west, which set me at ease a little bit, distraction by looking out over the city.
Anyway, was landing one time at night, knew we were descending, thought we were still out over the Irish sea or something, had no idea we were anywhere near the airport. Next thing I see the "16" marked on the ground for the runway and got a bit of a shock, really wasn't expecting to see the ground when I did.

artanevilla

The noise levels in Artane are nothing what they were like years ago, it was constant back then.

Strumms

yes, or if you were anywhere near the approach or departure of the old runway at Dublin airport. In the 80's we had single glazing, no noise restrictions with loud aircraft passing overhead rattling the place up. Fast forward 20 + years and with all that has evolved you have somone pissing and moaning about a handful of hours of 'noise' over the course of a whole year ? hmmm is all i'll say.

WayKay

Never knew that about the old runway etc. I believe this is only used when necessary and obviously depending on the wind direction. I was also told that for all flights going out of Dublin in any one year that this runway is only used 5% of the time and that planes have a much shorter time to get up and off this runway. Anyway back to normal now (-: THANKS A MILL

LXFlyer

Well obviously if the wind changes the runway will too. Whether or not that is only 5% of the time is completely dependent on weather conditions, something the airport authorities don't have a lot of control over!