hi all I hope I will be feeling up to this on thursday still, I had a tooth removed this morning as it had cracked and was beyond saving and I have been in agony ever since the local wore off. The thought of talking or eating anything hot is rather horrific atm!
Hi Paddlechick, the reason you get flights sometimes and not others is due to Runway Alternation:
Runway alternation
The practice of runway alternation gives residents under the flightpath some relief during the day.
When planes are landing over central London (around 70 per cent of the time) they are routed to one of the two Heathrow runways.
In normal circumstances this means planes land on one runway for the first part of the day (from 7am to 3pm) and the other for the latter period from 3pm to 11.30pm.
This 3pm turnaround is managed by a weekly rota.
On week 1 planes land on the southern runway up to 3pm and the northern runway during the rest of the day.
On week 2 planes land on the northern runway up to 3pm and the southern runway during the rest of the day.
From 6am-7am when the airport is very busy there is no runway alternation.
When plans land from the east over Windsor there is no runway alternation.
(This means that when there is an easterly wind we get no planes at all hurrah)