Assessment ScoreCard – 31 Day

Aircraft Traffic Assessment: 31 Day 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

16/10/2024 16:47:34

UK Postcode

HEATHFIELD , EAST SUSSEX , TN21 8JD

Baseline geo-coordinates

50.9674 , 0.22458

Survey type

31 days from the 1st date shown in the Evidence table below .

Assessment band

FREQUENT

Assessment actual value

12.82

Assessment description

Likely to encounter both night-time and day-time noise disturbances that are caused by high volumes of planes flying at at low altitude. Also expect a visual impact too.

Band range

Lower: 12.0 --> Upper: 16.0

Volumes, Height bands, and Intensity.

For Assessment / Daily Avg. / Hourly Avg.

Count of ALL flights

4,054 / 130.8 / 7.7 (3,399)

Flights above 26k feet.

170 / 5.5 / 0.3

Flights between 16k and 26k feet

332 / 10.7 / 0.6 (324)

Flights between 13k and 15k feet

67 / 2.2 / 0.1

Flights between 7k and 12k feet

3,378 / 109.0 / 6.4 (490)

Flights between 6k and 7k feet

54 / 1.7 / 0.1

Flights between 5k and 6k feet

1 / 0.0 / 0.0

Flights between 4k and 5k feet

0

Flights between 3k and 4k feet

2 / 0.1 / 0.0

Flights below 3k feet

50 / 1.6 / 0.1

4 or more flights per hour

406 / 13.1 (217)

9 or more flights per hour

171 / 5.5 (90)

Departures between 1.5k and 15k feet

5 / 0.2 / 0.0

Time and Sleep Analysis

For Assessment / Daily Avg. / Hourly Avg.

0 AM

63 / 2.0

1 AM

34 / 1.1

2 AM

11 / 0.4

3 AM

5 / 0.2

4 AM

1 / 0.0

5 AM

23 / 0.7

6 AM

67 / 2.2

7 AM

140 / 4.5

8 AM to 9 PM

3,367 / 108.6 / 7.8

10 PM

168 / 5.4

11 PM

167 / 5.4

Other Noise Disturbance, Vibration and Emissions factors

Time in seconds an aircraft existed in the airspace bubble

30 (23)

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

47 (43)

Minimum avg. distance in miles

0.38

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

111.0 / 51.0 / 5.8 (77)

Flight holding stack identified?

Yes

Altitude for all flights

11,430 (16,276)

Altitude of departures between 1.5k and 15k feet

3,384 (7,941)

Altitude of flights below 20k feet

9,583

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

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

18.90

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

17.90

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

16.90

Sunday @ 18:00 - 4 time(s) in 4 weeks. Approx:12 flight events.

16.00

Monday @ 15:00 - 4 time(s) in 4 weeks. Approx:12 flight events.

15.40

Monday @ 12:00 - 4 time(s) in 4 weeks. Approx:11 flight events.

14.30

Sunday @ 12:00 - 4 time(s) in 4 weeks. Approx:10 flight events.

13.70

Sunday @ 16:00 - 4 time(s) in 4 weeks. Approx:10 flight events.

12.80

Monday @ 18:00 - 4 time(s) in 4 weeks. Approx:9 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.



Evidence by associated Airport – indicative only: HEATHFIELD

UK Airport Count of Flights Percentage of Total
LONDON GATWICK AIRPORT349186.2
LONDON STANSTED AIRPORT1283.2
LONDON LUTON AIRPORT1273.1
BRISTOL AIRPORT852.1
TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT?731.8