Jets Above the Riviera?
By an edhat reader
I’m a concerned SB citizen and wondering if you can help me out with something that is disrupting the neighborhood up here around the Riviera. What do you know about jets circling overhead for about an hour or more every night around midnight over Santa Barbara for the last week or two? It’s been not only disruptive but disturbing.
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Feb 21, 2019 11:07 AMAlso a very concerned citizen. Something must be done
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Feb 21, 2019 11:21 AMAre they circling or just passing over? There shouldn't be any midnight flights into SB, so they are either very high and passing over or something very nutty is going on!
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Feb 21, 2019 04:26 PMThere sure are midnight and later flights into SBA. I'm regularly on one that gets in from SFO at something like 12:05.
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Feb 21, 2019 11:33 AMYou always hear the commercial traffic late night with this type of weather . 3-5 miles up is like a busy two lane Highway .
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Feb 21, 2019 11:45 AMWith am iPhone you can simply ask Siri what planes are bove me right now and voila! it will provide the information to you like magic.
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Feb 21, 2019 12:18 PMWinds were blowing lots of noise up hill last night.
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Feb 21, 2019 01:06 PMThose are not planes circling overhead. Those are late night departures from LAX heading to Asia. Weather plays a major impact on how far sound travels. I can hear them from my inside my apartment near Oak Park just the same.
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Feb 21, 2019 01:50 PMOP I sympathize. Pay no attention to the Edhat snarkers.
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Feb 21, 2019 02:58 PMRiviera is like a half mile wide....planes going 500 miles an hour...
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Feb 22, 2019 06:40 AMWe live on the Mesa. For the past week, we hear a noticeable roar just after midnight. It lasts about 15-20 minutes. It sounds like a large plane off the coast.
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Feb 22, 2019 09:44 AMWe are in Mission Canyon near the Botanic Gardens and have also noticed this. It's not unusual to hear air traffic, but this is different. Noticeably louder and lasts longer than the typical fly-over. More of a curiosity than a problem, IMO.
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Feb 22, 2019 07:01 AMAs others have commented, the weather is very odd this year causing all sorts of unusual occurrences. The jet stream is producing the highest speeds ever recorded with planes traveling upwards of 800mph across the country. The cold we are feeling is due to a shift in the polar airflow as well, which is causing a lot of strange weather here and further down in the southland. Have you ever seen it snow in Malibu how about Phoenix? I doubt it... You can log onto anyone of the many flight tracking sites and see what's flying but its likely just an atmospheric shift that's pushing the sound towards our mountains where it bounces back towards the sea and across the riviera's ridge line.
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Feb 22, 2019 07:19 AMNo circling, too expensive to fly jets in circles. Probably hearing jets from LAX fly over San Marcos VOR, a navigation facility that NW bound departures from LAX use to go to SF, PDX, Asia. If the humidity and winds are right, you can hear them. BTW they are usually flying above 25,000' as they pass over SB.
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Feb 22, 2019 09:30 PMI hear those jets every night between midnight and 1 am-ish. I wonder why they have to fly straight over S.B. Why not a little bit NW or SE of us for the sake of preventing noise pollution?
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Feb 23, 2019 12:11 PMYes, lots of air traffic late at night including to Asia. Fun to track them live here ...... https://flightaware.com/live/