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Heathrow planes taking off Eastwards over Ealing

Seem to have been with us a long time over the last couple of months including breaking what I thought was a 11pm curfew.I appreciate the technical reasons, prevailing winds etc, but is there any website that records and and holds historical logs of these take off and landing turnarounds?  I am sure there must be but my Google searches have drawn a blank.A point in the right direction would be appreciated.

Philip Coe ● 2524d8 Comments

Yup back on Westerlies for what feels like the first time in ages!

Jim McCauley ● 2511d

No planes today!

Philip Coe ● 2511d

Its pretty much dictated by wind direction, on Easterlies a given percentage will overfly West Ealing

Jim McCauley ● 2517d

Just as a personal observation I feel that there have been many more planes flying over West Ealing recently with the windows open or in the garden in warm weather it is really a disturbance. I have to get up very early and so the late night planes are also very noticeable and very frequent. If the 3rd runway goes ahead we'll all have to seal ourselves up in triple glazed cells - forget about enjoying the green spaces of Ealing.

M Powes ● 2517d

If you use flightradar24 you will see exactly what the flights are that you refer to. As an insomniac it doesn't bother me but I can appreciate that for sleepers LHR is not keeping to termscof the agreement,

Bettina Margaret Thwaite ● 2517d

Many thanks to both of you for your help.  As an overview of the ratio between Easterly and Westerly take offs I have subsequently come across this https://www.heathrow.com/noise/reports-and-statistics/operational-data/wind-directionInterestingly last year, 2017, had the smallest percentage of Easterly operations (19%) in the 17 years of records shown since 2000.  What the logs do not seem to show is a further breakdown of flights between the 6 Easterly departure routes.

Philip Coe ● 2523d

Some movement logs here:http://www.lhr-lgw.co.uk/heathrow-main-menu.htmlAFAIK The Cranford agreement still prohibits 09L departures so on easterlies all planes take off from the southern runway 09R

Jim McCauley ● 2524d

Go to flightradar24.com, then click the playback button (bottom of the column of 5 on the right of the screen). You can set the date/time on there, and click on individual planes for details...

Ann Haddleton ● 2524d