How high is an aircraft 5kms from airport on landing approach

[KimberleyChris]

Courcheval is for girls. Try Lukla in Nepal.

It has its own fan club on Youtube.


The runway slopes steeply and ends in a rock face, once you begin approach there is no 'go round' - its land or go home.

There's a video of a plane that didn't make it, if you are a bit ghoulish :-)

[Paddy]

No it won't be loud for small - mid sized planes. I'm in the flight path of a small airport and to be honest never notice it. Of course your Plan B for a Zen Garden and 'Massage by Milan' has other things to worry about.

My mum’s home was 2 ½ miles away from touchdown. Sometimes you could see the crew if a plane came too low. She liked being on the flight path. The down side was having the car occasionally splattered with dirty kerosene.

[TimberWolf]

afternoon all,

well we need to know this because there is a small airport and they are applying for planning permission to accept commercial passenger flights, they are saying 6 per hours during day light hours
and if they get the permission it will affect plan b

hence, wanting to know, how high the aircraft will be on the landing approach 5kms from the airport

not rocket science is it

so it seems from the esteemed experts present that we are talking 300m

will the aircraft be loud at that height on landing approach ?

Milan.

Also, as cliphead says the glide angle will vary for plane and conditions. I looked up the glide angle for a 737 (short haul trip plane) to get 3% glide angle. A small airport used by small aircraft may be different.