Noisy airplane flight

[s m]

They'll be outlawed soon....all planes will have to be electric by 2040 to meet EU pollution targets......

[OldGermanHeaps]

I've been hoping for a quadcopter drone big enought to carry me and my tools to work for a while, hopefully they crack it soon.

[wack]

You don't know loud , I "flew" on the hoverspeed Dover to Calais , now that was loud, and rattly and stunk of fuel , think it was 30 minutes, I always wondered why they weren't more popular worldwide until I went one one , all that floating on a cushion of air is utter bks.

I flew Manchester to Aberdeen at Easter with Flybe on a prop plane , it was noisier than a traditional jet but not excessively so, you could hold a normal conversation

[Hackney]

VGTICE said:

Yipper said:

Love Southend Airport. It's like the airport time forgot. Tucked away in a residential corner of London with a great rail link.

Same with East Midlands Airport, such a convenient airport to get to from central London. I often hesitate whether to fly from City Airport or EMA.

Southend is not "a residential corner of London"! Although it is a bloody good airport. I parked for pennies 50m from the front door when I went to Mallorca from there a couple of years ago.

Parking at Robin Hood airport a few years ago was like parking in a P&C space at Tesco and also cost pennies. Paid more to park at Heathrow than I did for the flights.

[AndrewCrown]

OP my dear chap...well done on popping your prop cherry....you should be embracing this noise...it's around 3000hp...of Pratt & Whitney Canada PW100....x 2...kind of cool

Only at +8 hours of exposure to 90db might be tricky for one's ears...and that is well beyond the range of a ATR 72-600

[Prawo Jazdy]

djc206 said:

herewego said:

As in it got off the ground before reaching the end of the runway.

Ha that's always a bonus. Performance and ATR are not often heard in the same sentence, asthmatic POS

What a demanding person you are. They can climb at 700' per minute or beat forward ceaselessly at 170kts. Not both at once though.

GET OFF MY RADAR SCREEN YOU fkING OBSTRUCTION!!! ...might have escaped my lips in the past.

[rubystone]

I use them pretty frequently - Aurigny Stansted to Guernsey. Seats 18 back to 21 are the quietest; ask for one of those next time. Trilanders and Skyvans they used to use were hideous for noise; ATRs like a Rolls Royce in comparison!

[Master Bean]

RosscoPCole said:

The Trislanders that used to fly between the Channel Islands and the mainland were loud. The pilot regularly said to the passengers before take off that the aircraft was not designed for speed or comfort and handed round a big box of earplugs.

No earplugs or warnings for me.

[EddyBee]

If it was worse than a Q400/Dash-8 (the turbo props Flybe normally operate) it must have been bad!

The Q400 is fitted with Active noise vibration control (ANVS) but they're still loud.
In short it has speakers/actuators that vibrate in an opposite frequency and cancel out the noise and vibrations.

I believe Lotus designed a similar system called Halosonic (not sure who did it first mind)

[alorotom]

I commuted daily to Birmingham for a while and flew down/back on a prop plane

I figured sitting furthest aft was best for me

The service from crew was outstanding though having only 2-9 passengers per flight!!

[mybrainhurts]

What's this doing in GG?

[Halmyre]

Noisiest I've been in was the Twin Otter to Barra. When the engines started my wife said "loud, isn't it?". It got a bit louder as we taxied to the runway. It then got REALLY BLOODY LOUD as the pilot opened up the throttles and took off using about 10 feet of tarmac.

Tu-95 aircrew reading this will be thinking "Pfft. You know NOTHING! I SAID, YOU KNOW NOTHING! WHAT? HALF-PAST NINE!!!"

[Master Bean]

I can't remember which was louder, Trislander or Twin Otter. Both were brilliant fun to be on.

[djc206]

Prawo Jazdy said:

djc206 said:

herewego said:

As in it got off the ground before reaching the end of the runway.

Ha that's always a bonus. Performance and ATR are not often heard in the same sentence, asthmatic POS

What a demanding person you are. They can climb at 700' per minute or beat forward ceaselessly at 170kts. Not both at once though.

GET OFF MY RADAR SCREEN YOU fkING OBSTRUCTION!!! ...might have escaped my lips in the past.

They're so slow I actually feel guilty when I speed Dash 8's behind them.

We all got excited when Aurigny introduced the E190 on the Guernsey to Gatwick route thinking we'd seen the back of the bloody things, no such luck.

[peter tdci]

lucido grigio said:

Since when has Southend ON SEA been in London ?......

Pah, it's almost central London.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/blog/2006/feb/09/...

[robinessex]

lucido grigio said:

Yipper said:

Love Southend Airport. It's like the airport time forgot. Tucked away in a residential corner of London with a great rail link.

Since when has Southend ON SEA been in London ?......

Er, since Stobbard took it over. This any help ?

[mybrainhurts]

robinessex said:

Er, since Stobbard took it over.

Stobbard?

Don't you mean....

[schmalex]

J4CKO said:

OldGermanHeaps said:

John145 said:

https://www.johnlewis.com/bose-quietcomfort-noise-...

I assume you have these? Best purchase ever, 100 hours in the air so far this year and wouldn't go a minute without them!

I got the qc30, as i also use them at work and they are a bit more discreet.

Another vote for Bose NC headphones, they are amazing.

Yep. I have QC20 in-ear NC headphones and hey are outstanding. I fly ultra long haul (UK / Asia) pretty much every 10 days and I simply couldn't live without them

[FurtiveFreddy]

I can't wait to find out what the OP thinks of his first flight in a helicopter...

[surveyor]

My local airport (Doncaster Sheffield - we dropped Robin Hood), get's these beauties.



Quiet, relatively specious, comfortable.

ETA I do miss the Stobart ATR's that used to operate the Dublin route. Mainly because you could see the intense irritation of those busy people who had reserved the front seats, to discover that you boarded from the back...

Edited by surveyor on Thursday 27th July 19:39