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The good news is that Adelaide airport has a fairly restrictive curfew. These poor homeowners don’t have to put up with air traffic 24/7

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Having lived directly under that flight path, there are exceptions to the curfew, especially for international flights. Even then, the first flight comes in daily at around 6am (or did when I lived there) and worked as a fairly effective alarm for me.

I used to live in Thebarton under the flight path, too far from the airport to bother anyone too much really.

Now I'm in Launceston a bit further from the airport, the 2am Toll Freight flight is definitely something I notice.

I'm under a flight path in Brisbane, yeah those freight flights are surprisingly loud compared to the general traffic. For a lot of the dedicated domestic freight flights where I am (I assume it's similar in Tassie), they tend to use old 737-300s and -400s which sound about as loud to me as a much larger 777-300ER flying over, and louder than modern wide-bodies like the 787-9 and A350. Crazy how far engine technology has come!

Also, at that time, it's super quite except for those freighters.

Quality of life here as a home owner is exception, but don't tell anyone ahhhh ;)

Oh, those 2am freighter flights! I'm in a super quiet area of Trevallyn, which makes those couple of flights quite loud. Also, Launceston has a similar set of runway lights, that you drive under, and look very close to a house.

The 2am flight reminds me in Riverside that it's time to head to bed!

Oh hey! I figured I'd bump in to a local eventually :)

There are tens of us!

I would not have picked there of all places but the quiet nights there would make for a good background of silence to emphasise the flights.

Have you considered Davenport? :D No flights but endless shipping going on.

I like visiting Devonport, would be orright if ya could get a good job there.

Serious question: Does the community gave to secure items to prevent them from falling? Have you ever had shattered windows?

Less serious questions: Is it a 140dB alarm? Do you recognize models by sound? I assume the A320 is medium-size, do they have bigger airplanes?

Planes coming in above us were at about 1000ft, and there was definitely vibration, but not enough to damage windows. We did have some badly secured pictures fall off the walls, and items on shelves had a tendency to vibrate their way off the edges.

Not 140dB, but to give you an idea of how loud it was, we had to pause the TV or conversation when planes were coming over because we couldn't hear it.

We could absolutely recognize models by sound.

Very rarely did we have anything larger than an A320, Adelaide is not a big airport, but we did have some big military aircraft come through.

It's an international airport. Pre-Covid A380s and 747s were common. Now we don't see many A380s anymore.

The airport also has been around since 1955 (according to Wikipedia). So anyone who lives there today definitely knew what they were getting into.

I suppose. Though passenger numbers have gone up by a factor of four since the 80s.

Yeah… I can’t imagine living 100–200m from the runway and right under the approach path… it must be a special kind of hell.

I suppose you might get used to it if it was fairly regular every day? I used to live right across from a hospital trauma center helicopter pad. That was annoying because most of the time it was no issue, but every once in a while at like 2am, all heck broke loose with "Thump, thump, thump" in the air and bright lights pouring through my windows. But then, I couldn't get too annoyed, as the fellow in the helicopter undoubtedly had it much worse than I had.

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