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STOP THE STACK!
Do You Value Your Peace and Quiet?
- There are plans by the National Air Traffic Service (NATS) to route ALL Stansted western arrivals over this area.
- Aircraft will hold or stack above this area while they wait to land at Stansted Airport.
- Aircraft will circle at altitudes from 7,000ft up to 14,000ft. When in use the stack will always hold an aircraft at the lower level and up to 8 planes above when full.
- Aircraft can be given clearance to descend beneath the stack at any point down to 4,000ft or they will leave the stack along the ‘red’ exit route. Villages under this red route will be significantly over flown. To see how you will be affected go to How this affects you on the NATS website, enter your postcode and select option 4 – proposed Stansted western arrivals.
- At busy times there will be up to 33 planes per hour using the stack.
- ‘Daytime’ flying is from 6am – 11pm.
- Noise levels will be up to 69 decibels for noisiest aircraft at 4000ft, equivalent to a car driving 40 miles per hour 23ft away. The Government acknowledges that anything over 57 decibels causes ‘disturbance’.
- NATS concede that the impact of such air traffic is worse over rural areas where there is less background noise, but say they are acting on Government guidance to avoid areas of dense population.
- The number of aircraft using Stansted is set to increase. If plans for a second runway are approved aircraft numbers will increase even more.
- If these plans are approved the planes will arrive next spring 2009.
For more info on these proposals and how to oppose them please visit http://sopaq.wordpress.com
It is really important that people respond individually to the proposals by 19th June 2008. Responses can be submitted via the NATS website www.consultation.nats.co.uk or by post to TCN Consultation, NATS freepost, NAT22750, Reading, RG1 4BR