Information on aircraft arriving at or departing from London Gatwick is provided by WebTrak, our online flight tracker, which provides the aircraft flight number, aircraft type, height and if the flight infringed our noise abatement procedures (e.g. CDO). We also show aircraft which do not operate to or from London Gatwick. You can also see the departure Noise Preferential Routes (NPR), rainfall (to show why aircraft may be avoiding certain large storms), a 15NM distance scale (to assess where arriving aircraft join the final approach), as well as the data direct from our fleet of field noise monitors.
WebTrak uses data taken directly from Air Traffic Control radar, which is then fed into the airport’s Noise and Track Keeping (NTK) system which powers the flight tracking systems. A short delay is applied to the replay of ‘live’ data of 25 minutes to ensure all flight track data is presented as accurately as possible. Alternatively, you can use the other pages in this section to understand how aircraft overfly your local area, typically how many, at what height and how frequently aircraft overflew your area.
