I used to be an estate agent and we’re couldn’t sell a house backing onto the motorway, then one day a deaf couple walked in, they had the right price range and we were all so excited. When we got to the house the first thing they said was “what’s that noise?”
I stayed in a flat there for one night with a family member. I was told about the noise but I was woken at 6am and nearly jumped out of bed with fright. It was the horrendous noise of aircraft coming in. It went on every 3 minutes after that. How the heck anyone sleeps there amazed me
We lived on the turning point over East London, as they lined up to go in to land. Led in the garden ‘plane spotting’. Not as loud but you had no problem spotting them.
@@Lily-Bravo Thought - if possible - some kind of 'digital assistance'!! Either way, I'm glad I don't live there but feel sorry for those unable sell up and move away if they wanted to.
We live on the approach to Runway 26 at Gatwick about 20 miles from the airport. Flights come over in the Summer at about one every 2 minutes but at least they’re usually at between three and four thousand feet. They don’t worry us as we’re interested in aviation. But it’s surprising how many people make a conscious decision to move very near to Gatwick Airport then complain about the noise or about airport expansion plans. If you don’t want aircraft noise then don’t live anywhere near an airport!
Yeah that crazy that people complain so much , i live a few miles away from heathrow and do be getting leaflets in the door from campaign groups about a 3rd runway at heathrow, wish they would hurry up with the 3rd runway for a new place to plane spot.
@@jetstreamukI am also on the flight path for Heathrow and a recent election candidate was saying on his election leaflet to vote for him because he opposes a 3rd runway at Heathrow little realising that for me it’s a reason not to vote for him as I agree with the 3rd runway .
I don't live any where with as much air traffic as this but I do live near an RAF airbase in Suffolk under the flight path and I have sort of got used to it now. A few weeks ago the Red Arrows dropped in which was amazing to see. All parked up on the base. Awesome.
@@kevinkibble8342 I don’t think the planes bother the people in the house , it’s the mess the plane spotter leave in the field after the weekend on hot days
As a 16 year old apprentice, I was sent to an engineering college on 4 month block release, and the company got me a b and b next to heathrow Airport directly under the flight path. Now this was 1972 to 1974 , 6àm first plane ,till midnight last plane, single glazed windows then as well not tripleglazed as now, i thought I would never get used to it but after a few months slept like a log. The problem was when I came home, it was to quite
@jetstreamuk Did not use heathrow till I think 1976, but I did see it flying. My time was that long ago at college, the Wright brothers were probably still flying !
Neighbours chatting on the street: What time do you you wake up? Ah, at Virgin o’clock, you? I wake up at American Airlines o’clock. What about you? Eh, I’m at the earlier one, a Quatar o’clock.
Clearly air travel is going to have to massively reduced. But so us meat consumption as methan is a much more powerful at trapping heat. Going to have to cut back on milk based products, too.
A few years ago a Russia plane that was taking part in the local air day hovered over our house, he was that low we could see the pilot clearly and he waved to us.
There's quite a famous episode of 'Place in the Sun' where the couple (especially the wife) are incredibly fussy & picky, and she finds something negative to say about every room of every house they're shown. She's especially focussed on noise. Then they get shown one house that she seems to love. They go out onto the balcony. You can see her ears twitching then she says, "what's that noise?". The presenter says, "that's the sea". "No" says the wife, "it's too noisy" 🤣🤣🤣 true story
@@theodorajuskiw5283 tragic, especially as she really wanted a sea-view.... I could imagine her seeking legal advice about serving writs on the local maritime authorities to force them to quieten down the noise of waves crashing gently on the shore in front of her balcony. Or at least placing the tide under some kind of curfew in the hours of darkness 🤣
Yep As a student, I spent 4 months renting in Hounslow, under the flight path. Triple glazing helps, but no fun in the garden. You get used to it, but not choose to live there.
I live a bit further out and here at least you do just zone out. The only one you couldn’t ignore was Concorde, which made the furniture rattle, but it was only twice a day and you forgave it because it was Concorde
Concorde. It used to fly over at 6pm as I was walking home from the station. Every time I would stop walking and just gaze up at it. So beautiful, so charismatic. We lived on a hill and you could see it circling waiting for its slot to descend to the airport. I thank my lucky stars I got the chance to fly in her before she was cancelled.
and yet, tens of thousands of people live in Hounslow, leading normal lives. it's very simple actually: that airport has been there long before those developments. if you move to Hounslow willingly (and again, MANY, MANY people do), then you know what to expect. it's also something you learn to live with, so relax.
I used to live under the direct flight path into Heathrow, usually there was an incoming flight every 30 seconds, but I'm an aircraft fanatic and I loved it, I could see everything from my kitchen window. After a while I just didn't notice the noise, but it was difficult to drag myself away from the kitchen window. 😂
I would definitely not feel safe with those big things flying over my house so low. How the hell could you get to sleep? Talk about noisy neighbours I would be looking for some sort of council refund for my council tax or some compensation from the airport
@@flipper2392Are you serious. Jets back then sound like fighters especially during takeoff and they scream like demons when on approach and landing if you have watch old footage of 707s, DC-8s, VC-10s and the BAC 1-11s from the 60s and 70s. In comparison, modern jets are just whisperers.
I live in Waterloo, central London... miles away from the airport and they are still still deafening when the come over our home -- so loud that you can't hear the TV if you have the windows open on a summers day (like today) - starts around 6am, go over every few minutes until after 10pm... they fly right down the river, tormenting and polluting millions of people... Still, I do like my holidays, so there's that.... My next home I will be adding "nowhere near flight path" to the list of requirements... my list of requirements is now so long that I think I'll be moving from Central London to the Outer Hebrides :0)
I must disappoint u - they sometimes change flight path due to wind or clouds. I do not live near any path but sometimes they change and they start flying over my garden - annoys the hell out of me. Inside we can not hear them, our houses are well insulated
Those homes have benefitted from extreme double glazing, heavy roof tiles and reinforced roofs plus some sound proofing installation paid for by Heathrow and the passengers. Whilst you might not enjoy your garden you are close to well paid jobs.
If someone moves next to or near an airport or factory farm etc that is already in existence than they should never have a right to complain just move.
My uncle, Harry Ricardo, an engineer, told me that modern air craft were badly designed. He said the fuel consumption and noise level could both be cut. There you go, ‘Crap Craft’!
Hmmm, except that manufacturers in the current era go to enormous lengths to make aircraft as light as possible and turbofans that are as efficient and quiet as possible. Most if not all of the competition between Airbus and Boeing is based on small improvements in the fuel consumption per passenger mile. Also, your Uncle Harry's statement implies that vintage aircraft were quiet and fuel efficient - when in fact noise and fuel consumption were extremely low down on the list of design requirements for early airliners. In the early decades of aviation, before the 1970s oil crises, fuel was cheap and abundant, air-pollution wasn't even in people's vocabulary, and commercial aviation was so exciting that nobody cared about how noisy it was. Concorde is an early days aircraft - it was filthy, noisy and drank fuel like it was tap water. Your Uncle Harry is talking out of his ricardo.
Animal agriculture causes more pollution than cars lorries, planes, trains all over the world put together so he is kind of right because the consumers are the ones buying the products and needs to be shipped all over the world
Ive visited Myrtle avenue a few times and seen how the inconsiderate parking of planespotters cars is probably a bigger issue for residents than plane noise,the local council should install a car park in the open space area at the end of the street
The houses in that area have subsidized triple glazing because of the proximity to the airport, but you still hear every plane go over. What's more, many gardens have an oily residue on the plants that grow in them, so that's another downside of living on a flight path. Despite this, house prices in Hounslow are pretty high!
Years ago I used to work terminal 1 and I remember looking up anytime and there being 6 planes coming in to land at all times apart from a gap to let concord in
I had a friend, Christine, who I used to catch the bus home from school with sometimes, back in the 1970s, who lived in Myrtle Avenue. My house was about half a mile further down the road so we were far less affected by the planes coming in to land. I think she just got used to it, as I suppose you do after a while.
I’d imagine that eventually you’ll get used to the noise. As I remember that I had rented an apartment right next to the train station. The first night that I slept there I thought that the train ( especially the locomotive trains), was coming through my walls it was so loud. By the time I moved from there ( about 10 years later), I could set my watch to the train schedule. The new place that I moved to was in a really quiet suburb, and for about the first month I couldn’t sleep 😴 well, because it was too quiet. 😂
I get your point but studies have shown that people living in high traffic ( ground vehicles) areas suffer from this excessive noise pollution. I mean even when I walk my dog and someone ( which is everyday) is mowing, getting construction work done, lorries passing by constantly I feel my blood pressure rise. Its not natural and we were never designed to live with these noises. Fair enough the odd plane flying over but this is just terrible.
i use to live in central london just near the station where the underground coming out to overground and from 5am the london underground went by my flat and non stop every few minutes up till 12am , i got use to the noise but them subways trains woke me up every morning
Thanks for the video, reminiscent to me. Most of the hotel rooms in heathrow area r equipped with double glazing windows. There's always this option for the houses in the area there. As a former flight crew , i stayed in the area there for years n i'm used to the sounds of aircrafts there. When someone works there he will adapt to the noise with time so far.
My sister lived down there as a student. It was exiting at first when I visited her to see and photograph the planes so close. Soon as my camera was empty the excitement very quickly vanished - every 30 seconds there was a massive plane flying low overhead.😬
Once lived so close to an airport...that when i got up to go get a snack..the flight attendant told me to get back in my seat and buckle up for landing 😂
Looking at the houses and properties they look older buildings, so chances are we're built before Heathrow Airport, or the airport wasn't as big as it is today. Environment would have been totally different back then.
Yes you are right. I grew up in one of those houses in the 1950s. Heathrow had only just been built and life was completely different then. Family eventually moved out in 1980s. Horrendous noise. You never got used to it.
I shouldn't mind living in one of them houses... Short walk to the airport every time you fly somewhere.... no need to catch a bus or a train, no need to get a taxi, no stressing about planning the whole journey etc. Great!
I used to live in Hong Kong early 80’s. My school was under thé flight path of Kai tak. You could see the nuts and bolts of the undercarriage if we were outside. You sort of get used to it. Those houses will be much cheaper than in thé rest of the area but many of them will be triple glazed and insulated in the attic so noise inside will be less. It’s just the garden area that will be annoying but most people there will be out most of the time anyway, working to save up to get somewhere quieter!
Another anecdote. Some future singer-songwriter entered for an in-school song contest (not sure if it's the school you're talking about). Noise from planes flying in and out of Kai Tak threw her off mid performance.
I can't believe the houses are still standing, we've had the odd low flying military jets and helicopters flying over, and it makes the house shake a bit!
I visited the beautiful Kew Gardens a couple of years ago and couldn't get over the number of planes flying overhead. Then I was told it was at the end of a runway.
If i lived in one of these houses I'd never go inside I'd be so fascinated and mesmerised with these planes but i suppose eventually it all Where's off and you go about your everyday life but still what a fantastic experience it would be ✈🛩
That would be my idea of "hell on earth" to live there. Years back I was up there demonstrating against an extra runway - and was gobsmacked that so many people were putting up with "(trying to ) live under that".
Stayed at my daughters house in SW London 4 years ago. Nearly shat myself a few times. Some locals i spoke to reckoned theyd got used to it. Hailing from a rural part of England id never get used to it. Quite appauling the noise and pollution.
i’d do a lot of work in the Sw area of fulham and do be sitting on the roof looking at them , they do be low going over that area as well on approach to land
You’d be amazed how many do that. It’s the same at Gatwick - people make a conscious decision to move to a village near the airport (e.g. Charlwood) then complain about the airport noise or about expansion plans. Airports rarely get smaller - do they not factor that in when they move there?
It's like that almost everywhere in the approach path to Heathrow in the southwest. We once stayed at a hotel in Putney for a week and by 05:30am, the night was over 😂.
I coild live there and just plane spot all day, especially a380s, absolutely majestic planes 🥰🥰🥰 some close up views for go arounds in storms as well....
I used to live near there (46 Berkely Avenue I think). This was in the days of terrestrial TV only, and the TV would go off as the planes flew over and blocked the signal. But, it's not like we didn't know there was an airport when we moved in, and we we were prepared to put up with it as the rent was comparitively low. I was a student and had a summer job measuring aircraft noise for the CAA. The loudest measurement all summer was in our back garden when I brought the kit home, as the official closest measuring point was further away from runway than our house.
I just went to see a house in Isleworth this weekend. Lovely house, lovely price. I why. These things went directly over the roof. And that's out by Richmond way, not as close as this.
This must be in Hounslow or Feltham, an absolutely appalling state of affairs and Seema Malhotra, Labour MP for Feltham and Heston, and Ruth Cadbury, Labour MP for Isleworth and Brentford, should hold their heads in shame!
One side of me is afraid to go on that thing. The other side think traveling by plane is funny. The feeling when the plane start to fly is amazing. Then I love to watch the world from the sky and I forget the fear. Fear aside, the biggest flaw of the plane is that is noisy. Is like being on a old car.
homes near a major flight route, 24hr noise pollution, smell of aviation fuel constantly in the air, congested roads from all the commuters to and from the airport, yet the property prices are north of £350K...
Its not madness. its called a AIRPORT you may see AEROPLANES if you live near a station you may also see TRAINS. If you live near a port you may see SHIPS. If you live near a motorway you may see CARS. Its when you DONT see these things you should start to worry
About time the aviation industry started paying proper tax to offset the environmental damage...yes i admit i have benefitted from cheap foreign holidays in recent years.
Every aviation enthusiast's dream come true. You can see one flight literally every 50 seconds. I could sit there all day watching and not get bored. Although get polluted 😂. I guess better than chemtrails 😅. Always find planes fascinating especially when so low. ✈️
People moving next to an airport then bitching about noise are like those who purchase a cliff top house then cry when mother nature claims it in a storm. No sympathy
I live siuth west of london, on the approach to Heathrow. Usually, the approach doesn't go over my house, but occasionally I get this at 6 am. Arrggghhh!
Is this normal? I know people who live in the path of Heathrow and it wasn't that bad. The question should be "WHY are they flying so low?" Or are the houses just getting closer and closer to the airport?. Safety issues arise, never mind the pollution.
