Aircraft Viewing Areas

[A400]

A couple of hours a month with a spade and broom is not really an investment. It's very little to ask. I get the feeling from the responses I've had that very few of our members actually visit the airport to spot aircraft. The airport need friends and this would be a good way to recognise its supporters.

Hi there. I’m glad to have joined here as my local airport is LBA and love to discuss things aviation.

I for one visited that location to spot many times before the pandemic but now I tend to spot from my house as I get a good view of jets departing and arriving so maybe that’s why a lot of members from the Leeds area don’t go there often as well as there not being as much to see as we had in 2019

 

[LBAYORKIE]

Im tempted to take my own spade and brush up there. Still need airport to cut back obstructing vegetation on their land though.

 

[ls27]

I think if you make too much fuss about this, the the airport could ask the LCC to reinstate the lines ( may be the dreaded red ones) and stop viewing. Just take the words of a old lag, who knew about this problem before I retired, but because, I along with many other aircraft enthusiasts enjoyed the view, I forgot to pass in the info to the office.

 

[LBAYORKIE]

Im talking about the airport sending 2 blokes up there for a couple of hours a month. Its the least they could do.

 

[ls27]

Read, mark and learn from my last response.

 

[A400]

Im talking about the airport sending 2 blokes up there for a couple of hours a month. Its the least they could do.

But it’s not the airports responsibility to do that they have responsibility’s inside the airport area. It’s the council that have that job so they need to send a few people up for a couple of hours a month

At the end of the day the airport can’t have responsibility’s for the surrounding areas it’s not how it works

 

[LBAYORKIE]

Is it our responsibility to write letters to the SoS? There has to be give and take.

 

[A400]

It’s not really about responsibility on that one. It’s an individuals choice weather they write to him or not and the new terminal is LBA responsibility.

But you were talking about them tidying the viewing area as it’s called next to the cemetery which is not their Job it’s the councils just as they have the job of keeping inside the cemetery tidy.

 

[LBAYORKIE]

It would be a favour, like all those letters we've written to the SoS and everything else we've done. Give and take.

 

[Scottie Dog]

It’s not really about responsibility on that one. It’s an individuals choice weather they write to him or not and the new terminal is LBA responsibility.

But you were talking about them tidying the viewing area as it’s called next to the cemetery which is not their Job it’s the councils just as they have the job of keeping inside the cemetery tidy.

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[LBAYORKIE]

I visited the Cemetery Road viewing area this morning. I find it hard to understand why there's so much litter when there are six- yes six litter bins all within a very few feet of each other. I picked up quite a bit of litter including bottles out of the bushes and put it in the bins so it looks better now. The shrubs haven't been trimmed back yet and really a few trees could do with cutting back as they are blocking the view.

 

[Aviador]

Aviation enthusiasts will be blamed but I am sure most of it will be from people using the area for "other" recreational activities.

 

[ls27]

The other 'activities' were the reason for Plane Tree Hill' being closed off.

 

[tonysmith]

Wouldn’t like to venture up to the bone yard area on a evening

 

[LBAYORKIE]

There were quite a few of those little resealable plastic pouches scattered around. Anyway I would encourage any of us using that viewing area to pick up some litter when we are there.

 

[LBA4EVER]

I visited the Cemetery Road viewing area this morning. I find it hard to understand why there's so much litter when there are six- yes six litter bins all within a very few feet of each other. I picked up quite a bit of litter including bottles out of the bushes and put it in the bins so it looks better now. The shrubs haven't been trimmed back yet and really a few trees could do with cutting back as they are blocking the view.

I was there this morning too briefly, just as the BA flight landed, was in the silver focus haha

 

[Pilot-boy]

Hello can anyone help me with the best planespotting area near the airport without a fence ?

 

[White Heather]

Hello can anyone help me with the best planespotting area near the airport without a fence ?

There's an unofficial viewing area adjacent to Yeadon Cemetery, which overlooks the runway 14 turning loop and you can see the runway almost full length. Ideal for landings on 14 and departures on 32. However it gets very busy during school holidays and recently the shrubbery on the embankment down to the road has been allowed to become overgrown which means that in some areas the view has become obstructed. Parking is tight too but across the road, 200 yards away, there's a free car park at Yeadon Tarn.

This is all located at the top end of Cemetery Road Yeadon but can easily be accessed from the airport roundabout on the A658. Turn here in the opposite direction to the airport, (just beyond the runway tunnel), drive to the end (Viking car park and runway on your left), then turn left. Follow the road around the end of the runway and as the road straightens the viewing area is above to the right. The Tarn car park, should you prefer it, is another 200 yds on the left.

Hope that helps.