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We recently moved here and live in Spaulding Farm, near Roper Mountain Road and Hwy 14. I've been trying to figure out the flight paths for takeoffs and landings at GSP. There doesn't seem to be any schedule that I can discern. Sometimes I hear planes starting about 6 a.m., and sometimes not. Other days there's activity in the late afternoon, but not every day. Do the flight paths change that frequently, and if so, why? Weather, winds, or something else?
We moved here from Orange County, CA. My office was in Irvine, right across the freeway from John Wayne airport. You could practically set your watch to the flight activity there. Planes always take off to the west, over the ocean, and land from east to west. This only reverses when there are Santa Ana winds (hot winds that blow in from the desert), usually only a few days each year.
I live 5.5 miles southwest of the airport, near Woodruff Road, and I have just recently noticed planes waking me up at 6am, and they do seem to be getting louder over the years. However you are right, they do not seem to be consistent at all. Some days I won't notice any and another day I'll notice four or five really loud ones.
Maybe they intentionally cycle the areas they set up landing paths through so nobody has to deal with it every day?
There aren't that many passenger flights per day to or from GSP. Winds and the like can affect which direction flights are arriving/departing. But, they do start about 6am.
Other things.. GSP is not the only airport. You've got the downtown airport, which it sounds like you might be right in the path of as well.. And there's also Donaldson Center.. Generally there, you wind up seeing the C-130's and the like, but.. Apparently soon you will be seeing fighter jets coming and going from there as well.
Orange County is under special restrictions by the FAA to reduce observable noise.Take offs are steeper and usually over the water.Landings are unaffected.GSP has no such restrictions.
There aren't that many passenger flights per day to or from GSP. Winds and the like can affect which direction flights are arriving/departing. But, they do start about 6am.
Not sure what your definition of "arent that many" is, but there are close to 100 passenger flights to or from GSP. That's a pretty good amount in my book!
Flights start out of GSP right before 6am and the last scheduled arrival is around 12:27am. Winds do effect which way they takeoff or land. Sometimes the path will be real close to you. Sometimes they go the other way. You can track flight paths at Greenville/Spartanburg Intl Airport (Greer, SC) KGSP / GSP Flight Tracker
Military aircraft also use GSP sometimes for flight training. I'd be surprised if you see that second runway within the next 10 years. I bet the studies, permitting, resident opposition, and construction would take 10 years by themselves.
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