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[Bazile]

Er indoors has put down some garden lights in the garden ...(where else )

Anyway wer'e under/ near the flight path to a major airport

Looked outside ,not long ago , and the lights are brightly illuminated in the darkness

If you hear in the news in the coming days , of airplanes having to abort landings and go around .....

[Mamyalynne]

Open a duty free shop in your shed ;-)

[Buenchico]

Aborted landings aren't the real problem. It's when a 737 lands and tries to taxi down your garden path that you should start getting worried ;-)

[marval]

That could get interesting.

[sanmac]

Just don't light two bonfires or will have a Lysander surreptitiously setting down:)

[Buenchico]

I've heard that the RAF are a bit strapped for cash these days. Perhaps you could do a deal with them to use your lawn?
https://tinyurl.com/yyr77pzr

[sanmac]

You will, that is.

[Bazile]

That's a good idea mamy
In fact we are going to have a brick shed built

We could change its use to a duty free shop

[albaqwerty]

I'd be more worried if they were fairy lights....

(allegedly they're worse than A380's)

[retrocop]

I read somewhere ,recently ,that illuminated garden lights that are on all night disturb the sleep patterns of the dicky birds. :-(

[Buenchico]

If Michael O'Leary is an AB member, Ryanair will soon be renaming Bazile's garden to 'Birmingham Floral Airport' ;-)

[retrocop]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8552791/Light-pollution-interrupts-sleeping-patterns-magpies-pigeons-study-finds.html

[Bazile]

Don't joke , you lot

We have a long
garden .
Could easily be mistaken for s runway , especially now it's illuminated

[sunny-dave]

Just wait until The Enterprise needs a landing pad ...

[retrocop]

I recall when I was a young staff cadet at RAF 617 Gliding School, Hendon we had a massive USAF

Starlifter transport land in daylight whilst the field had gliders in the circuit. It had been about 15 years since RAF Hendon had been closed to powered aircraft. The pilot was doing a radar approach and thought Hendon was RAF Northolt. He burst all his tyres trying to pull up before he avoided hitting the married quarters at the end of the runway. Thge pilot got a court martial and the aircraft had to be stripped down,new tyres and minimal fuel for it to take off on the 'peri' track in order to clear the large 'Watling' Council estate on the other side of the perimeter fence.The estate was evacuated during the successful take off which just cleared the fence.

[Hopkirk]

Blimey. I know a Pan Am 707 landed at Northolt thinking it was Heathrow, but that's even worse.

[elliemay1]

Thanks for that Bazile, made me laugh! Nearly choked on my scone!

[iluvmargie]

Reminds me of the Only Fools & Horses sketch where Del Boy put up a huge satellite dish thinking it was for TV and it was in fact a dish to bring planes in to land and standing on the balcony with Rodney one night, a plane started flying towards them as the dish activated!

[Bobbisox1]

We've got those lights that go in the floor of the decking, Mr B said the same thing, flights will think it's a landing strip

[New Judge]

Love the photo of the "Frightening Lightning" 'Chico. I've flown in one of those (well, not that version - it's a single seater - my flight was in a T5 two seat trainer). One thing Baz may need to beware of - the Lightning has a very high landing speed (about 190-200mph compared with a "Jumbo" B747 at around 145-150. He may need a small extension!

The tale of the Starlifter amused me, retro. I did some of my early glider flying there before buying a share in a glider and moving to North Weald. Always enjoyed seeing the tube trains coming out of the tunnel between Hendon and Colindale as we skirted the airfield. I believe the longest runway at Hendon was under 4,000 feet - probably less than half that a Starlifter would need for a safe landing!

[Bazile]

No incidents last
night .... i think

phew .