Do you live on an approach path?

[SEATAC 400]

I'm lucky enough to live on the approach path to not one, but two airports. Some of my neighbors might not think this is a good thing, but I certainly do.

I live about 4 miles from the Boca Raton, FL airport (KBCT) which serves everything from really light aircraft like the Flight Design CTLS and Cessna's all the way up to corporate jets. And they all fly about 1,000 ft right over my house on their approach.

I also live about 20 miles from the Ft. Luaderdale airport (KFLL) and as the planes make their approach to RW 9L they fly over my house as well, although at this point they're about 3 thousand feet up. But these are the big boys, MD-90, 737, 757, A320, etc. and the FedEx MD-11's (which fly only at night).

Which airport do you guys live near? I bet you have some real interesting ones. Let me know.

Richard

[rob16584 42]

My gran lives on the approach path into Leeds Bradford, as the crow flies it's around a minute to touchdown, so they are very low. It was great in 'the old days' when the bigger (and noisier) planes came in, but now mr health & safety and environment minister have had their say, things are pretty quite.

It was fantastic when Concorde came in, you could here her for around 5mins before you saw her.

[mutley 4,498]

My mother lives right under the flightpath for rway 08 for Bournemouth EGHH, they pass over at about 600 - 1000ft loads of Ryanair, Thomsonfly 738's sometimes Thomsonfly 752's and there is sometimes a 747 will visit.

I live in a town which is a VRP for Southampton EGHI so I get to see lots of inbound Dash 8's or Embraer 195 but not very often.

/Mut

[hurricanemk1c 195]

Don't live under a approach path but I do see lots of heavies flying over going across the 'Pond' (Atlantic)

[wisemanp 0]

For me it's the same as Keiran- plenty of American bound traffic high above. We also get a pretty much daily VC-10 departure from RAF Brize Norton for re-fuelling (I'm sure Simi can tell you more about that!)

I used to love visiting my grandfather's... he used to live near the Biggin Hill entrance point for Heathrow bound aircraft, they flew a 180 degree turn over his house, and it was also where the Ockham arrivals came in so we got Concorde every day.

My Auntie and Uncle used to live in Hounslow, directly under the 27L final approach. Me and my brother used to spend whole evenings watching (If they were on that runway...) They now live in Ashford (Middx) so we get the Dover departures on Westerly take offs and Southampton/Compton departures on Easterly take offs...

To top it all, my other grandparents live near RAF Leeming, so we got hawks and tornadoes. However I think they may have stopped flying from that station.

[allardjd 1,853]

My in-laws used to live on the approch path for the Muskegon, Michigan airport (KMKG) a decent sized regional airport with a fair amount of commuter, bizjet and other GA traffic. I don't think they were much over 2 miles from the threshold so the AC were fairly low, there, maybe 600 feet.

John

[Dizzy 0]

I live 7km south of my local airport. I also work there in the summer. While it's not on the Approach path it's close enough that I can hear the Harvards do their run ups.

[allardjd 1,853]

Who is using Harvards?

John

[Dizzy 0]

Canadian Harvard Aircraft Association, http://www.harvards.com/

I think there up to 8 Harvard's, 1 Yale, 1 Tiger Moth.

And 4 of the Harvards are fully aerobatic.

[stu7708 244]

I work almost straight under the approach to RWY 01R at ESSA, about 10 km away from the runway, and live about 4 km west of the approach to RWY01L and the same distance south of the approach to RWY 28.

The road I drive to and from work runs in between the approaches to 01L & 01R, so I do see alot of air traffic on a daily basis.. last week I found myself under a 747 on final...

[SEATAC 400]

I live 7km south of my local airport. I also work there in the summer. While it's not on the Approach path it's close enough that I can hear the Harvards do their run ups. :biggrin:

Harvards? What we Yanks refer to as AT-6's.

[Dizzy 0]

I live 7km south of my local airport. I also work there in the summer. While it's not on the Approach path it's close enough that I can hear the Harvards do their run ups. :biggrin:

Harvards? What we Yanks refer to as AT-6's.

Yep, what you Yanks would call a AT-6 Texan we Commonwealth'ers call a Harvard.

Here's C-FRZW a Harvard Mk.IV so she was built after the war, but has an improved cockpit layout, and long range bladder tanks inside the wings. Oh and powered by a 600hp Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp :biggrin:

[SEATAC 400]

Very nice shot. I has the pleasure of seeing a few of these in action at the Homestead air show last November.

[allardjd 1,853]

What we Yanks refer to as AT-6's.

...or SNJ if you're of the naval persuasion.

John