[Closed] Complaining about aerobatic planes?

Thisisnotaspoon Thisisarant

CAA?

It's the mating ritual of the tigermoth. Be very afraid.

https://www.caa.co.uk/Our-work/Make-a-report-or-complaint/Aircraft-noise/

Its not a real plane. Its just a really close model plane 🙂

Its not a real plane. Its just a really close model plane

Ironically, if that were true then flying over people would be illegal?

Sounds like a right plane in arse, must be sending you loopy

Live near Ascot by any chance? Red Bull Air Race coming up and may be practicing ?

Though surely CAA don't let any aerobatics over houses, roads or any people whatsoever now after Shoreham.

At least that's what's ruining Farnborough Air Show. Spectator spots outside are now off limits with orders to cancel displays if anyone's spotted on common lands under the flight path etc. Red Arrows are limited to just a fly by.

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Its not a real plane. Its just a really close model plane

Ironically, if that were true then flying over people would be illegal?

No

At our old house we regularly had a stunt pilot practicing right above us. It was interesting for a while but became a pain in the arse. Someone told me the pilot was an 86year old grandma and it became a worrying pain in the arse...

CAA. Its probably not directoy over your house but I appreciate the noise could be a pain.

Paint a message on the roof of your house?

Get one of these 😀
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CAA? Nah, you want SAM.

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All over the UK are Local Flying Areas, out of the way of commercial traffic, where private pilots can fly freely above and below certain heights.

Sounds like you live below one!

Yes , paint a massive "F*** off noisy pilot " message on your roof.

TINAS - TUP

Senor J - Been tried before and failed.

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Pilots started using it as a waypoint.

Strange thing to worry about. I'd be more worried about traffic on my street than an occasional aeroplane. If it lands on your house then buy me a lottery ticket.

I live near and occasionally work around Sywell where the Blades aerobatic team are based. Nearly every time their is a nice sunny day those bastards are up making a noise like a wasp in a tin.

Bit of an overkill but it be nice to see one of these kick into action in a nearby field.

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Though surely CAA don't let any aerobatics over houses, roads or any people whatsoever now after Shoreham.

I think this only applies to organised airshows

Yep, but they're rich twunts so they're allowed to p us poor folk off. Of course, Brexit (and the roll back of 'red-tape') will make this much worse...

Yep, but they're rich twunts so they're allowed to p us poor folk off. Of course, Brexit (and the roll back of 'red-tape') will make this much worse...

So presumably, if you had neighbours who were outside whenever it was fine with a boom box and a bunch of kids kicking up a racket you'd be perfect fine with it?
Instal flight radar on your smartphone and check out the plane details, if its civilian then it should be carrying a transponder and be registering on radar.
Or get a pair of binoculars and see if you can read its registration then google it, which will tell you who owns it and it's home base.
Or just ignore it, like most people do who live anywhere near a major airbase, airport or flight path.
I live underneath the former beehive that was RAF Lynham, and for over fifty years had the noise of large transport aircraft and fast jets in and out at all hours.
And if there are no restrictions on where an aircraft can fly now, just wtf has Brexit got to do with anything?

CountZ - as an ex- Lyneham Hercules pilot - sorry!!!!!

Better not have been you in 1991 on the way back via cyprus......

That's must be the Pitts.
Best stop Yak-ing and put in a complaint.

CountZ - as an ex- Lyneham Hercules pilot - sorry!!!!!

You lucky, lucky chap. One of my all time favourite planes and I remember looking out of the bathroom, of the gf's house, in the middle of the night at dozens of Herculeses at the hangers and on the tarmac.
Second favourite the English electric Lightning, so it was a pleasure going to Binbrook.

dantsw13 - Member
CountZ - as an ex- Lyneham Hercules pilot - sorry!!!!!

No! Don't apologise, it's been really sad not having the Alberts, and all the other aircraft flying around, although we still get some, like the A400M that was around last week, and there are still Hercs about very occasionally.
There are sometimes choppers about, like Apache and Chinook, but the sky is sadly empty by comparison. 🙁
I have fond (!) memories of one foggy night, hearing the engines of a fast jet coming in on approach, but a bit louder than usual, then there was an almighty roar, my late mum, who was in bed asleep, screamed and shouted down stairs asking what on earth was going on! I was told later the pilot saw the lights of Hungerdown Lane through the fog, and thought it was the Lyneham approach lights, until he got down to around 200ft, and realised his error.
Cue throttles slammed open, and a stern talking to!
I also understand a Herc pilot tried the same thing one foggy night with the lights along the A4 at Cherhill...
Of course, those may be apocryphal, but that jet was sodding low, and it was very, [i]very[/i] loud!
Thing is, I go back far enough to remember Hastings, Beverly, Argosy, Belfast, Comet 2 and 4, VC10, Anson and all sorts of visiting aircraft, like Galaxy, Starlifter, even the huge Antonov transporters, so no apology needed.

And if there are no restrictions on where an aircraft can fly now, just wtf has Brexit got to do with anything?

He/she/some other inconsiderate **** was flying arround in the same area with a Vote Leave banner the day of the referendum and the days beforehand.

There's a reasonable chance the pilot has chosen the area due to lack of airspace restrictions, lack of major built up area and because no one has complained. Also they are going to be looking for somewhere close to a home airfield rather than burning fuel to get somewhere. Try phoning up your local airfields and if you can figure out who it is just ask them not to use the same place every day.

He/she/some other inconsiderate **** was flying arround in the same area with a Vote Leave banner the day of the referendum and the days beforehand.

Unlikely to be a connection then - a plane doing aerobatics isn't likely to be the same sort towing an advertising banner.
Planes towing banners are most likely going to be something like a Cessna, whereas an aerobatic plane is going to be either a biplane like a Pitt, or a low-wing monoplane like an Easy, or maybe even a Yak-56.

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Boscombe used to get regular complaints about the noise from Sting (it was upsetting his tantric *******) there was obviously lots of sympathy for his plight.

Remember the crash a few months ago near Castle Howard in Yorkshire? 2-seater thing with 2 RAF students, hired the plane privately for some aerobatic practice.

That's very near where my sister lives and it's obviously a similar sort of area. Very few people or buildings, reasonably flat so a nice horizon and there are always a couple of planes around doing aerobatics.

Most of the time it's not really noticeable but occasionally it does start sounding like an angry wasp in a biscuit tin.

There'll be a local private airfield, give them a call.

can I complain about the endless **** loop the **** loops over a built up area, are there safety rules about that?

You already are.

Anyway.

Let's say you complain to the CAA.

The CAA might adjust their flying area restrictions for you.
The CAA might move their boundaries for you.
Or...