It becomes so common place that it's just part of the background after a few weeks. In fact, you start missing it if the planes stop coming in for a landing.
You can look out at night and see the rows of planes to the eastern horizon jockeying into position and lining up for landing behind each other. It becomes almost like turning on a fan at night. You get so used to the fan's droning noise, that it's hard to sleep without it after a while. Same thing with airplanes.
Only difference is that you can always tell when there is something wrong with a plane. The sound is different, or movement is strange. People who fly don't realize just how often it happens and they may never know about it. However, from the ground it's apparent when something is wrong. For me, that's about two or three times each week.
I gotta know, how do you get sleep at night?
It becomes so common place that it's just part of the background after a few weeks. In fact, you start missing it if the planes stop coming in for a landing.
You can look out at night and see the rows of planes to the eastern horizon jockeying into position and lining up for landing behind each other. It becomes almost like turning on a fan at night. You get so used to the fan's droning noise, that it's hard to sleep without it after a while. Same thing with airplanes.
Only difference is that you can always tell when there is something wrong with a plane. The sound is different, or movement is strange. People who fly don't realize just how often it happens and they may never know about it. However, from the ground it's apparent when something is wrong. For me, that's about two or three times each week.
Once per month, you get one that's REALLY bad.
Thanks for your reply. I'm sure you've had to answer this more than once in your life, but I was genuinely curious.
You would be right at home sleeping in your bunk during Flight OPS, underneath the flight deck of one of our Aircraft Carriers : )