Assessment ScoreCard – Full

Aircraft Traffic Assessment: Full Scorecard



The symbol indicates the measure is better than the average when compared with other assessed
UK postcodes. The ❌ represents the opposite. Assessed averages are shown in brackets.

See: for a full explanation about the Assessment scorecard.

Assessment Scorecard headlines

All Assessments are based on an ambient background noise of 40 decibels i.e. a quiet residential area. If your property is located near to a busy road i.e. 70-75 decibels, the noise impact from aircraft will be significantly reduced, whilst the road remains busy.

Note: Airborne aircraft noise is typically in the range of 45dB - 65dB for heights below 26,000 feet and for a duration of 30-50 seconds. Whereas the average car, bus or HGV the duration is only a few seconds.

Date of survey

26/04/2023 10:30:45

UK Postcode

CENTRAL-CHELMSFORD , ESSEX , CM2 9XQ

Baseline geo-coordinates

51.7235 , 0.460182

Survey type

Full. Based on 93 days in 2019, during Mid Dec to Mid Jan, whole of April and August.

Assessment band

OCCASIONAL

Assessment actual value

4.50

Assessment description

Sound equates to a "C" road or an active country lane i.e. irregular traffic volumes. Location is on a flight route as opposed to a flight corridor. Some of the flights will be below 7000 feet and could occur at evenings and weekends.

Band range

Lower: 4.0 --> Upper: 7.0

Volumes, Height bands, and Intensity.

For Assessment / Daily Avg. / Hourly Avg.

Count of ALL flights

3,565 / 38.3 / 2.3

Flights above 26k feet.

2,287 / 24.6 / 1.4 (1,353)

Flights between 16k and 26k feet

466 / 5.0 / 0.3

Flights between 13k and 15k feet

94 / 1.0 / 0.1

Flights between 7k and 12k feet

442 / 4.8 / 0.3

Flights between 6k and 7k feet

50 / 0.5 / 0.0

Flights between 5k and 6k feet

35 / 0.4 / 0.0

Flights between 4k and 5k feet

30 / 0.3 / 0.0

Flights between 3k and 4k feet

19 / 0.2 / 0.0

Flights below 3k feet

142 / 1.5 / 0.1

4 or more flights per hour

14 / 0.2

9 or more flights per hour

0 / 0.0

Departures between 1.5k and 15k feet

367 / 3.9 / 0.2

Time and Sleep Analysis

For Assessment / Daily Avg. / Hourly Avg.

0 AM

27 / 0.3

1 AM

28 / 0.3

2 AM

11 / 0.1

3 AM

13 / 0.1

4 AM

47 / 0.5

5 AM

33 / 0.4

6 AM

83 / 0.9

7 AM

180 / 1.9

8 AM to 9 PM

2,829 / 30.4 / 2.2

10 PM

170 / 1.8

11 PM

85 / 0.9

Other Noise Disturbance, Vibration and Emissions factors

Time in seconds an aircraft existed in the airspace bubble

17

Percentage of overflying occuring Out-Of-Hours and at Weekends

42

Minimum avg. distance in miles

0.49

Number of possible disruptions by; day / out-of-hours / hour

4.0 / 2.0 / 0.2

Flight holding stack identified?

No

Altitude for all flights

26,820

Altitude of departures between 1.5k and 15k feet

8,759

Altitude of flights below 20k feet

10,598

Busiest times of day
(Distruption: 0 - low, 25+ high)

Day of week, time, frequency and number of flight events.

4.75

Thursday @ 19:00 - 4 time(s) in 13 weeks. Approx:3 flight events.

3.88

Monday @ 10:00 - 4 time(s) in 13 weeks. Approx:3 flight events.

3.50

Saturday @ 12:00 - 4 time(s) in 13 weeks. Approx:3 flight events.

3.00

Monday @ 19:00 - 4 time(s) in 13 weeks. Approx:2 flight events.

2.63

Wednesday @ 11:00 - 4 time(s) in 13 weeks. Approx:2 flight events.

5.17

Thursday @ 14:00 - 3 time(s) in 13 weeks. Approx:3 flight events.

4.50

Wednesday @ 17:00 - 3 time(s) in 13 weeks. Approx:3 flight events.

4.33

Monday @ 14:00 - 3 time(s) in 13 weeks. Approx:3 flight events.

Our scorecard is designed to provide a greater understanding how the assessment was reached for your selected UK post code. To enable you to validate our assessment we also provide up to 10 occurrences when we believe the disruption will be at its highest.

For those that would like to perform their own analysis we can also provide the low level flight data that includes the length of time a plane existed inside your select airspace bubble.