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In case you were wondering about low-flying passenger aircraft over central Tokyo last Sunday, here's the explanation:
Where we live we have a lot of low-flying air traffic from Chōfu Airport (turboprops serving the Izu Islands) as well as military flights (both fixed-wing and helicopters) from Yokota AB and from JASDF Iruma AB but it doesn't compare to the thundering noise of passenger planes on their final landing approach.
Test flights on Haneda Airport's new routes above central Tokyo raise noise concerns - The Mainichi
TOKYO -- Japan's transport ministry began test flights of large passenger aircraft on new routes above the heart of Tokyo on Feb. 2, to measure noise
mainichi.jp
The test flights, aimed at checking flight control procedures and measuring the effects of noise, will be conducted on about seven days and conclude by March 11. The flights on the afternoon of Feb. 2 followed an inbound route that is expected to open on March 29. New Haneda flight routes were devised as part of the Japanese government's goal to increase the number of foreign visitors to Japan to 40 million this year.
Where we live we have a lot of low-flying air traffic from Chōfu Airport (turboprops serving the Izu Islands) as well as military flights (both fixed-wing and helicopters) from Yokota AB and from JASDF Iruma AB but it doesn't compare to the thundering noise of passenger planes on their final landing approach.