JEST A CRUISIN' IN

[FUJI]

We live under the Landing Aproach and Take-Off run for most of the aircraft landing at or leaving Birminham International Airport, we are so used to them we hardly take any notice at all because modern jets are so very quiet:

 

This one comes and goes as regularly as a train...it's an Emirates Boeing 777 exactly the same type we flew to Hollywood in a couple of years ago:

 

This plane seems to have the ability to fly much slower, lower and less noisily than anything else flying....it can take the breath away as it  glides in under just enough power to keep it in the air. A number of Emirates Pilots put the undercarriage down very early over our house which is unusual because they still have about twelve miles to go as the crow flies

 

It is whisper quiet and a real pleasure to observe, most other airlines aproach at some speed, many banking sharply as they do so with quite a bit if engine noise:

 

Take Off noise from the boeing 777 is another thing, that pair of massive Rolls Royce Engines have a very distinctive  rumbling ROAR!...Thankfully Take-Off routes are usually away from buillt up areas so we get the rumble and not the roar:

 

The only Aircraft that bugs us as far as noise goes in the regular 4 times a day Commercial Helicopter shuttle, an all weather powerful beastie that can sound even noisier on damp and wet days....the rotor clatter is really intrusive...besides that a local Rugby Club ( the richer member of the town often hire a helocopter company to give short flights over the Castle next door, so over our neighbourhood too these are reakky annoying because everyt half hour or so we get the clatter and downwash of rotor blades as it makes low turns and sweeps over the Castle and iur house...it can ruin some weekends; We have complained,to the Club, the Airport and the Aviation Authority but they all seem to ignore us, myself and neighbours but we protest on

 

Taken at full 15 zoom with my FUJI EXR Compact shooting RAW...I am guessing the planr is as low as 900 ft over the fields at the back of the house:

 

Best viewed LARGE ....Cilck on Pic

 

This clip shows a similar plane a bit closer to landing, not at Biminham though:

 

[Phil]

I can imagine the novelty wearing off pretty quick but I'll bet it's fascinating to live under a flight path likes this.