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Re:Europe is investing heavily in trains by arethuza on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @11:24AM (#31003922)
From what I can tell it is take offs - aircraft coming in to land, even though they are much closer, tend to be inaudible.

It might be because we are relatively high up (about 100m) and most of the distance between us and the airport is over the sea.

Edit: Just checked on a map and when most aircraft take off from Edinburgh's runway into the prevailing wind they are pointing pretty much directly away from us which might make it more noticeable.

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Re:Europe is investing heavily in trains by flavius29663 on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @11:44AM (#31004212)
As far as I know, airports try to setup the operations to have planes descend over cities, and climb away from them, to minimize noise. Sometimes this is not possible because of winds, so there will be a reversal.

Sometimes it's not possible to avoid climbing over cities because the city ended up engulfing the airport (e.g. Heathrow) - so they will alternate directions to give various towns a break.

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