Is this Britain's noisiest street? Hundreds of aircraft soar just 40ft above rooftops

smurfjed

I love this sort of headline, but talk about absolute rollocks. If the aircraft was 40 ft about their roof on a 3 degree glideslope, it would land in their neighbours backyard....

Dogwatch

Linky, please

keith16

Daily fail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2730993/Is-Britain-s-noisiest-street-Hundreds-aircraft-soar-just-40ft-rooftops-Myrtle-Avenue-end-Heathrow-s-runway.html

Tenger

Sounds to me like someone needs to get a chipper van onto that road pronto!!

"The aviation enthusiasts bring chairs, blankets, picnics and cameras with long lenses, so they can enjoy the massive aircraft coming in to land and taking off in comfort.........
Despite the noise and disruption, the houses are still worth an estimated average £276,946, because of the site's proximity to the capital."

So people are still happy to buy there....sounds like an excuse for the Daily Mail to print some nice dramatic pics of low flying airliners!! Fine by me!

billie1b

I would have NO PROBLEM living there, id even invite the spotters in for a cup of tea, i'd actually probably be spotting with them

peter1892

Flights approaching rwy 28 at DUB are about 1,500 feet above my place. It wasn't a prerequisite of us moving there but it's certainly a bonus

It's not that loud really. In fact, we rarely notice the flights now especially when they're landing on 28 (take offs from 10 are obviously louder). There was a bit of an uproar in the area over the previous plans for 10L/28R and no doubt that will kick up again should that plan start up again in the future but I tend to ignore that particular viewpoint

L1011

Tenger wrote: »

sounds like an excuse for the Daily Mail to print some nice dramatic pics of low flying airliners!!

And obsess over house prices.

Daily Mail's entire content can be described as:
* House Prices
* Cancer
* Immigrants
* Aviation scare stories

Any way to link two or three of those together in the one article is ideal for them.

KCAccidental

I grew up in Hounslow directly under the approach for LHR. Back in the 80's it was wonderous to look up at Concorde, 747, DC 10, L1011, 727 from all over the world just above my house.

It did help that we had triple glazing windows

phonypony

MYOB wrote: »

And obsess over house prices.

Daily Mail's entire content can be described as:
* House Prices
* Cancer
* Immigrants
* Aviation scare stories

and Paul Gascoigne

L1011

phonypony wrote: »

and Paul Gascoigne

More accurately: Any public figure in a bad state. c.f. Amy Winehouse, Kate Moss, Pete Doherty...

man98

I was there a few years back, there was a Park & Ride for the tube. It was weird seeing Emirates a few hundred feet up.

Mint Sauce

KCAccidental wrote: »

I grew up in Hounslow directly under the approach for LHR. Back in the 80's it was wonderous to look up at Concorde, 747, DC 10, L1011, 727 from all over the world just above my house.

It did help that we had triple glazing windows

Did concord not use gatwick? Or atleast in the 90's. I lived in SW London and lived under the Heathrow Approach. Never seen Concord amongst the flights going overhead ever 30 seconds or so, but did see it often to/from Gatwick south of us.

KCAccidental

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Did concord not use gatwick? Or atleast in the 90's. I lived in SW London and lived under the Heathrow Approach. Never seen Concord amongst the flights going overhead ever 30 seconds or so, but did see it often to/from Gatwick south of us.

it was used for LHR-JFK

Bazzy

You'd swear it wasn't there when the houses were being built.

You'd expect noise but then again we said that about croke park and well .... don't mention the war

They may complain about the noise but they have the choice of moving and the airport certainly doesn't affect the house prices in a negative way.

Bang_Bang

billie1b wrote: »

I would have NO PROBLEM living there, id even invite the spotters in for a cup of tea, i'd actually probably be spotting with them

Id love to live there, few cans out the back, BBQ and enjoy the sky.

NIMAN

Another YT clip, I'd say when they are near the houses they are at least a couple of hundred feet up, and they don't appear to actually fly over any rooftops.

But it would be noisy, thats for sure.

No they pass about 200m north of the house and are about 150-200ft above. I'd convert the attic and make a balcony myself.

P_1

Seems to be more about residents moaning about spotters to be honest rather than moaning about the planes.

P_1

P_1 wrote: »

Seems to be more about residents moaning about spotters to be honest rather than moaning about the planes.

The few articles I have seen they comment about the ones messing up the parking, urinating openly and littering. You'll always get the few that will mess it up for the many.

Lapin

I know this area fairly well. Myrtle Avenue has become increasingly popular in recent years mainly due to the following reasons I gave in another thread recently.

"BAA opened a visitors centre following the closure of the sadly missed viewing area on the roof of Heathrow's old Terminal 2 in the early 2000s for what they described as security and access reasons.

It was situated in an office building off the Bath Road overlooking Runway 27R. There was an exhibition covering various aspects of the day to day life of airport's operations and a lot of wall chart type history with colourful diagrams and the like.

There were some low tech interactive things with flashy lights and a very basic mock up flight deck of a 747 which you could sit into and watch the final approach into LHR played on a loop in the windscreen every couple of minutes, complete with aircraft sound effects and ATC commentary.

Upstairs on a mezzanine floor was a small coffee shop and an indoor viewing area for spotters.

It was all free but didn't last too long. Apart from being poorly advertised, it was put in place as a hurried after thought to accommodate the spotters that once occupied the now closed T2 roof and Queen's Building before that.

There was little or no consultation with any of the many aircraft enthusiasts and their clubs who packed the old viewing areas every week. The new facility behind glass at the visitors centre only commanded a view over part of the north runway and wasn't suitable for regular aircraft spotting given Heathrow's runway rotation policy. Being indoors also meant it was difficult to hear the aircraft.

The place closed within a year or two as the spotters voted with their feet and decamped to places like Myrtle Avenue and the entrance to the airport's staff car park near Hatton Cross tube station, (both close to the threshold to Runway 27L and as close as non passengers can get to view aircraft at the airport now without drawing the attention of the police).

There is a covered viewing stand in the car park of the old visitors centre now but its a fairly souless place. Despite overlooking the worlds busiest airport, you can't get as much as a cup of tea anywhere nearby."

The tube station is only a couple of minutes walk away (although you take your life in your hands crossing the road to get to it) and there is a service station a stones throw away with a shop and toilets.

Alternatively, a couple of miles away near the far corner of the airport - If you want view incoming aircraft in comfort, there are few nicer pleasures than sitting in the beer garden of the White Horse on a Summers day!

As for the Daily Mail. Do they give jobs there to anyone who happens to walk past their features desk with a pen and paper in hand?

Bang_Bang

Here's the concord taking off over Myrtle Avenue, its brill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1ShTUVIzCI

Lapin

Bang_Bang wrote: »

Here's the concord taking off over Myrtle Avenue, its brill.

Nice vid indeed. I miss the noise of Concorde and the car alarms going ape!

Its not Myrtle Ave though but a couple of miles west at the other end of the runway, probably at Stanwell Moor.

KCAccidental

Bang_Bang wrote: »

Here's the concord taking off over Myrtle Avenue, its brill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1ShTUVIzCI

that brings back memories!

Lapin

Lapin wrote: »

Nice vid indeed. I miss the noise of Concorde and the car alarms going ape!

Its not Myrtle Ave though but a couple of miles west at the other end of the runway, probably at Stanwell Moor.

Yeah it's Stanwell moor, good spot. For Myrtle it would be going left to right and you would be on the right of Concorde as she took off.