Anyone in SW London, isn't it bliss without ...

[winebeforepearls]

the planes!

5 days of peace. I'm sleeping so well. I can hear birds singing, bees buzzing ...

can't last, but still, tis lovely while it does

I hadn't even noticed

Perhaps I'm too sensitive. But they are never-ending and loud when they're coming over usually.

I hadn;t noticed either but then I don;t get them when they change the runways every other week so I wouldn't necessarily notice. Where are the planes then?

Coming in from the west, cos the wind is in the east

Poor Queenie is getting them over Windsor.

but they routinely switch runways so they approach from differnt direction, don;t they?

i can't bear sw london for this very reason

if i ever go recording eg at kew for work, you have to do the interview in 30 second soundbites!

If they do, Kew, we don't notice much difference here - they still come in over the river/SW. Although sometimes, just as a treat, they bring them over Wandsworth or even as far up as Hammersmith.

Still, serves us right for living in deepest Fulham (luckily not for much longer ...)

i hadn't noticed. but HOW COME?

tbh it's not too bad in wandsworth...

It's just because the prevailing wind in the UK is from the west, and planes have to come into land facing into the wind, so therefore they come in from the east, so therefore they come into Heathrow over Central London ...

Very occasionally, like now, the wind comes from the east or south-east, and Heathrow give us all a break and bring the planes in from the west.

I think.

Taking off over me today in SW London/Surrey borders

I never get take-off only landing but much closer than you and right under the flight path. I don;t notice it anymore tbh I think you become immune.

It is lovely
one of the few benefits of living under the flight path is that often when the weather is like this the wind is easterly and so the planes land from the other direction

can't we quietly launch some barrage balloons to stop them coming over us ever again?