Howards/Springfield

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RE: Howards/Springfield

(03/08/2016 08:24)knutstransport Wrote:  Some homeowners got just £500 compensation (after a lengthy battle) in exchange for very low aircraft flying overhead from 6am to 10pm (and all night whenever the airport declares 'essential' maintenance works are required.

That's not quite true. The operational hours for the second runway are 8 hours a day from 06.30 - 10.30 and 16.00 - 20.00. The only time this changes is, as you say, when overnight maintenance is required on the main runway which certainly will be 'essential' considering how heavily used it is. Even then though, overnight arrivals are deliberately limited and not in any sort of influx.

As another side point, the direction aircraft arrive into any runway is dictated by the wind (you would want to land into a headwind) and so for some of the time, wind direction means that aircraft will follow a completely different routing into the airport and thus, those aforementioned inconvenienced residents find themselves not inconvenienced in the slightest.