I think this is going to be bad news - at the moment flights come and go from City airport from 2 corridors, one north and one south of the City. The new route is putting all the traffic on the Southern route, i.e. right over our heads, every flight.
I think it is time to mobilise for another letter writing campaign!
According to pages 23 through 31 of the East London consultation doc (if I'm reading it correctly) this Easterly route is only applicable for 36% of the time.
So while it would result in an increase of traffic over SE23, the bulk would still be using the Westerly runway - landing from the East over the Thames estuary
I'd certainly be in favour of alternating all Easterly approaches (from the West) using the current flight paths as a model - so that on alternate days they loop from the North or the South (like the agreement in place at Heathrow).
It's going to be worse for anybody living directly under the P-RNAV routes (the red lines) since much more traffic will stick accurately to those paths rather than spreading out over the coloured zones.
What's not clear to me is how bad a plane at "above 1000" feet sounds. It appears that most of our current traffic is above this height so we are really talking about an increase in quantity not noise.
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