Airplane holds/stacking areas - anyone live under one?

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Have recently found out that they intend to make my area a hold for airplanes waiting to land. Up to 7 planes can be circling at any time, from 7000ft up to 14000ft.
I'm wondering if anyone lives under such a zone, and what experiences you have. Is it noisy?
Whole area is obviously concerned as it is all studland, but I'm also concerned as I ride out around here and want to know what to expect if it does happen.
 
We are close to a large airport and the yard is underneath the flight paths - frequently we can have plane's landing and taking off close to us as well as circling to wait to land. Thankfully, we live in the other direction on a conservation area so aren't disturned at home but the yard like I said, is in the direct flight path.

TBH, it's not been a problem for us horse-wise - admittedly it can be a bit irritating if you are having a lesson and can't always hear what the instructor is saying - but we've not had advese reaction's from the horses.
 
My yard is in the flight path for the RAF and they frequently practise low flying and dog fights over the yard and hill. It is scary but the horses get used to it very quickly and don't flinch at all now. Last month the air ambulance landed in the school - the horses were all out in the fields which is the other side of a walkway from the school and none of them were bothered. They just watched!
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You will experience no problem as the planes are still quite high in the sky.
As someone whose dad is a RAF pilot I have lived under RAF flight paths and our horses have been stabled on or very close to RAF bases. They are not bothered by low flying aircraft at all.
 
I think it's one of those things that horses get used to. On a slightly different note, we've had a building site right next to our school for the past year. We've had scaffolding up, men in fluorescents climbing up it, big diggers the other side of the fence knocking things down, and we thought the horses would go mad. First of all they didnt' like it, but after a while they just got used to it, and I coudl happily ride Mr Ex-racehorse who spooks at bin bags next to the site. Now the buildings up and the scaffolding's down they're spooking because it's gone
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. Hopefully you'll find your horses are the same with the flight path - might be a bit spooky at first with the planes but will eventually get used to the noise.
 
As said by Lizzie liz (our horses were on the same station for a good while!) Horses and dogs very soon get used to it and it will not be too much of a problem for them. We are on a very busy fast jet station and have 2 riding schools within the flight path and they are fine.
 
I'm on an RAF flight path, get low fliers, dog fight practice, chinooks etc regularly (only 6miles from practise range as the crow flies) and ours never bother in the slightest - I don't really notice it either - certainly not enough to bother us
 
I used to live near Heathrow, this was when Concorde was still flying. We had all the other planes coming in as well. At the time I rode in Bushy Park quite often and the horses were so used to it they never took any notice of the noise, even when it was Concorde - and that was very loud indeed.

Now I live in an area frequented by the RAF so the ponies have had to get used to low-flying jets. It's amazing how quickly they do get used to the noise, even when the planes appear as if from nowhere.
 
im directly between 2 RAF bases and in a low flying zone. they go so low over us sometimes that slates fall off the roof from the vibrations. Ponies are so used to them now that when the red arrows did a fly over at a show and lots of ponies went nuts the only reaction from my boy was to flick one ear towards the noise.

Im also on the most direct and lowest flight path between a popular diving quarry and the nearest decompression chamber. the rescue helicopter (huge yellow one) goes over at least a few times a week (last year we had a week where they went overhead twice a day every day). ponies are used to that and no longer phased at all by helicopters.
Honestly cant say the same for tractors though we meet at least one every ride out and my lad still thinks its a pony eating monster out to get him.
 
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