I live near an airport....?

Question

And this is like the 20th plane that has gone overhead

Are these new planes or what would be the reason a plane would go in circles over and over again....

No bad weather...no raining?

Answer 1

All airplanes waiting to land are put into a traffic pattern, a rectangle around the airport that air traffic controllers instruct pilots to go into if there are a lot of planes that are waiting to takeoff and/or land. Sometimes air traffic controllers will instruct planes waiting to land to "go around" or to complete the traffic pattern around the airport once more to clear up the large amount of planes waiting to takeoff and/or land. Of course there could always be new planes that are waiting to land that have been instructed to enter the traffic pattern but have not done it twice.

if you have an airport with a flying school there could also be a pilot who is training his landing and takeoff skills by performing what is called "touch and go's" which is where a pilot flys the traffic pattern, lines up the centreline of the runway, touches down like he or she's going to land but then applys full power and lifts back off the runway for another round of the traffic pattern

Answer 2

You may be seeing the same airplanes going around the pattern. There is a portion of training for landings called "touch and gos". Where an airplane will circle the airport in the traffic pattern and touch down and take off again. That is the best way to learn how to properly land an airplane. Landing is one of the toughest things to learn. If you will watch the airplanes look at the direction of turns the planes are making. If they are making left turns it is left hand pattern. Right turns are right hand patterns. Go over to the airport and just watch them. You just might enjoy yourself. In my flying time I logged about 5000 touch and gos. Try this sight out to learn more about flying. http://www.studentpilot.com/

Answer 3

You don't mention what size airport you are near. Big city? Small town? Rural area?

What kind and size of airplanes are flying over? Jetliners? Military? Single-engine trainers?

If you would tell us the answers to those questions, we could give you a logical answer. Each of those situations would suggest a different set of reasons for a particular airplane to appear overhead repeatedly.

If you have repeated passes by small airplanes during good weather, they are probably training flights. Pilots in training must make many, many landings and takeoffs; they do this by repeating the airport traffic pattern over and over.

There are other reasons that apply in different settings. But the bottom line is that it is perfectly normal, and nothing to worry about.

If the noise bothers you, the best thing to do is to move somewhere else.

Answer 4

You are off the end of one of the runways. They are different aircraft. They just look the same to your untrained eye. If you look at commercial aircraft, they do resemble each other a lot. The reason is aerodynamics. They have found that a certain shape works best. Goes for cars, too. You may have noticed that many 4 door small to mid-size sedans all look the same. Aerodynamics and passenger room. It is the most efficient design and will still fit a 4-6 cyl engine and 4 people with the least amount of materials.

Separation of planes for landing at large airports is about 3 minutes on average. Can be more or less depending on the size of the aircraft.

Answer 5

There are several reasons to do holding at vicinity of airport.
1. Due to bad weather, planes can't land.
2.Something, such as fire or distressed plane on runway, has happened.
3. A plane declared an emergency is dumping remaining fuel over airport, and other planes are waiting for the destressed plane to land.

Answer 6

this is what happens

a plane wants to come in for landing but there is too much traffic and the atc needs to control it so they give the plane a radial of a vor and then the plane enters it into its flight management computer and the plane circles this vor until the traffic clears up

vors are like landmarks

Answer 7

my house is near an airport, and planes circle over all the time. they are just waiting for the runway to clear to land.

Answer 8

I grew up right near O'Hare airport - It was always so noisy. Even tho the weather may not be bad where you are, there are storms across the country and when things slow down in one place, they have a tendency to slow things down everyplace else.

It sounds like the places that are circling are in a holding pattern for landing, which means they just can't land yet because there isn't enough room for them at the airport you live near.

Answer 9

Sounds to me like your home is located under an airport flight pattern, and those airplanes (could be just one or two of them) flying overhead are probably operated by students who are flying the pattern to practice landing and take-offs.

I'll be willing to bet that you knew there was an airport nearby before you moved into your house, and you were told that there may be some occassional air traffic overhead. Just be happy that the airplanes flying overhead are not military jets!

Answer 10

Some cases the plane can’t land due to may reasons, such as no place or the land not clean or they have a lot of planes ,,, that’s all ,,,
You can’t do any thing for this ,, it’s normal for anyone who is living near the airport, that’s why the rate of rent house near the airport is cheap.