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    Have the flightpaths changed? Or are they flying lower due to fuel conservation? The last couple of days it has so much louder in Seddon than usual!
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    Have the flightpaths changed? Or are they flying lower due to fuel conservation? The last couple of days it has so much louder in Seddon than usual!

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    1. Aggravating_Fact9547 on

      They fucked with something, usually just jetstar does some fuel saving noisey approaches. Qantas seems to have joined in.

    2. a31ou on

      Flight paths are normal for this time of year (cooler months tend to see planes flying over the city) and flying higher actually saves more fuel than flying lower

    3. Blitzer046 on

      Number one, that’s an A380, one of the biggest airliners around, and the sheer size of it leads to the mistaken impression that it’s lower to the ground than other aircraft.

      It’s not, it just looks like it because it’s twice the size of anything else flying right now. 747 Jumbos are out of the picture these days.

      So your impression of the noise it’s making might not align with the actual noise it’s making – the newer airframes are substantially quieter than the old ones.

      It may be that the airlines that are running A380s are doing more flights at this time, but it also might be that the flow for Tulla is putting more arrivals along the north approach.

      If you really want to dig into this then the [Melbourne Webtrak](https://au.webtrak.aero/mel3) service will let you see near to realtime and historical flight tracks, as well as altitude readings, to see if flights really are coming in too low than expected.

    5. bluestonelaneway on

      There’s been northerly winds the last couple days which means planes have been landing from the south (over Seddon) and taking off to the north, and they haven’t been using the east-west runway as much. Might explain it.

    6. Polkadot74 on

      Flying lower would increase fuel consumption so the logic is a bit out of whack if this were true.

    7. onelove7866 on

      They have to bank over here if they’re landing on the southern runway, also Singapore a380s have only recently started coming in again this year ☺️

    8. Fantastic_Key_6645 on

      I believe that Singapore’s A380s have only returned to Melbourne in the last couple of weeks, so this flight was probably operated by a quieter 777 previously.

    10. Recent_Carpenter8644 on

      It’s going to get worse when the third runway opens, isn’t it? They deliver pamphlets about it occasionally. The last one mentioned something called ”noise sharing”. Due 2031.

    11. Finbarr-Galedeep on

      If you were trying to use less fuel, flying at a lower altitude is the last thing you would want to do.

    13. ZookeepergameOne2889 on

      If you’re trying to save fuel, flying lower is a bit like hitting the gas harder to save petrol; creative, but completely backwards. 😅

    14. CoolJRT on

      Would flying lower or higher save more fuel? Lower has more air resistance so harder to push through the air, but more air to propel through the engines, whereas higher would have less air resistance, but less air to pull through the engines (more work to propel the plane along?

    15. FeelingTangelo9341 on

      Right? I know nothing about the technical stuff but there’s been some really loud planes lately