1. SALFORDS & SIDLOW PARISH COUNCIL
GATWICK AIRPORT
ROUTE 4 IMPACT

2. Welcome and Introductions
Chairman David Brown
Welcome and Introductions

3. Meeting agenda Overview of Impact of Route 4 – Cllr Stuart Norton
Council’s objective for Salfords and Sidlow – Cllr Stuart Norton
Action taken to date – Cllr Jim Blackmore
FairPlaynes – Nick Proctor
Constituency Communications Manager for Crispin Blunt MP - Gareth Owen
Questions and observations – Chairman David Brown
Summary/ Close - Chairman David Brown

4. Cllr Stuart Norton

5. Gatwick’s nine Noise Preferential Departure Routes
Salfords
Sidlow
Newdigate
Norwood Hill
Outwood
Source: Gatwick Airport Flight Performance Team Annual Report 2015

6. Gatwick Statistics Gatwick has 9 Noise Preferential Departure Routes.
Route 4 was introduced back in the 1960s and is 3 km wide.
The Route handled over 37k departures in which is just under 40% of the total leaving Gatwick.
This equates to an average of about 150 aircraft per day.
The Route doesn’t operate when the wind blows from the east, which is about 30% of the time.
The current average altitude of aircraft over Sidlow is between 5000 and 5500 feet and over Salfords is and 6000 feet.

7. The Pre 2012 situation
Salfords
Sidlow
Newdigate
Norwood Hill
Outwood

8. Pre 2012 – Key points
Pre Conventional Standard Instrument Departure (SID) in use.
Conventional SID - not precise, reliant on ground based beacons.
Many aircraft flying outside Route 4 even though they hadn’t been vectored.
Public’s perception - shared spread of overflying with no one being particularly disadvantaged.
Crispin Blunt didn’t receive any complaints!

9. 2013 to May 2016 situation Salfords Sidlow Newdigate Norwood Hill
Outwood

10. The 2013 to May 2016 situation
New technology for flight navigation PR-NAV1 (Precision Area Navigation) Sat Nav in the sky using way points
CAA states that Route design was to replicate, as closely as possible, conventional SID, while at the same time not straying outside the blue 3km swath.
It failed because the way points took aircraft on a more northerly direction outside Route 4 when turning through 180 degrees.
Result - Communities were being over flown that had not previously been affected
Plane Wrong formed and To70 appointed

11. The Post May 2016 situation Salfords Sidlow Newdigate Norwood Hill
Outwood

12. Since May 2016
The radius fly by way point has been deliberately set to ensure a much earlier and tighter turn than previously, with the subsequent way points set along the centre line of Route 4 to minimise the risk of aircraft straying beyond its north edge.
A 220 knot speed limit has been set to ensure aircraft fly a tighter turn.
Aircraft navigation systems are set to fly over the centre line way points until they reach 4,000 feet where they can be vectored onto their destination route.
Our communities broadly lie beneath the Route 4 centre line and so we are receiving much more overflying than before 2012, with aircraft often at a lower altitude.

13. The parish council’s OBJECTIVE
For route 4 operations to replicate the pre 2012 situation whilst keeping within the 3 km wide route path

14. The Pre 2012 situation
Salfords
Sidlow
Newdigate
Norwood Hill
Outwood

15. Action the parish council has taken
We have attended meetings and spoken to:-
Aviation Consultant
Residents’ Groups
MPs and Borough Councillors
Aircraft Controllers

16. Nick Proctor FairPlaynes

17. Gareth Owen Constituency Communications Manager for Crispin Blunt MP

18. QUESTIONS AND OBSERVATIONS

19. CLOSING STATEMENT
Complain to

20. SUNDAY 16 OCTOBER SALFORDS VILLAGE HALL 10:00AM TO 11.30AM
LITTER PICK EVENT
SUNDAY 16 OCTOBER SALFORDS VILLAGE HALL 10:00AM TO 11.30AM

22. AIP Charts CONVENTIONAL SID RNAV SID SINCE SUMMER 2013 – May 2016 RNAV SID SINCE MAY 2016

23. Gatwick departure routes
Old conventional SID vs RNAV SID 2013-May 2016 (west & east) vs RNAV SID Since May 2016