What do 300+ flights in 24 hours look like?
If you have read our Motorway in the Sky article you may get the impression that there are only a few flights taking off over people’s houses. To make things clear those images have only a few flights shown.
Here’s are few images with the bigger picture:
These are the early flights – part of the restricted night-time operation. They depart the south runway and climb straight ahead before turning although they only go out to 5 nautical miles rather than 10 as we would prefer.
Then it kicks off at 0700. These are the 30 or so flights making sure lots of people are wide awake.
8am to 9am it continues, every 2 minutes on average
And they keep coming and coming for hours on end. This was 1st September 2023. Keep in mind that right turn was never supposed to happen so the people affected were never involved in the planning process, because why would they be, they were never supposed to be “Unexpectedly Overflown!”
The same 24 hours zoomed in. These communities, all between 2km and 4km north of the runway and it’s planned track are getting hammered by direct overflights, all day every day. Kilcoskan National School with its Autism Spectrum Disorder Unit is invisible because it’s buried under so many lines. Around 140 daily flights go over it between 09:00 and 15:00.