Yet another noise spike from night flights

Last week Andrew Hall wrote about the need to prevent noise spikes from Heathrow night flights with an aircraft at 1.30am on Saturday, December 11 causing a noise spike of 30dB over Datchet, Windsor, Slough, Burnham and Maidenhead (Viewpoint, December 16).

Then this week, five days later at 1.10am on Thursday, December 16 they did it again.

They sent another flight over Datchet, Eton, Slough and Burnham causing a noise spike from an ambient 30dB to 73dB.

As Mr Hall noted it is the spikes that cause sleep disturbance.

And when flights take off in the other direction, how many night flights are Heathrow sending over heavily populated West London?

In the interests of residents' health and well-being, these night flights need to stop.

There is a nightflights consultation currently under review.

The World Health Organisation recommends that we get eight hours sleep a night, and more for teenagers and younger children.

We need a nighttime curfew from 22:00 to 6:00 or from 23:00 to 7:00 every night.

PAUL GROVES Tithe Barn Drive Between Windsor and Maidenhead