Pick a place
Anywhere in Ireland or Northern Ireland
Your exact point stays on this device. Skylark is sent only the point rounded to about 100 m. An address search goes from your browser to OpenStreetMap's Nominatim, not to Skylark.
Over this square
Typical day
Lowest
Nights
Busiest day
Is this an approach path?
Standard straight-in paths, from the runway table
Day by day
Aircraft below 7,000 ft over the outlined square
Aircraft per day, by height
Lowest aircraft each day
Busiest hours
Estimated noise events
Estimates, not measurements
Estimated from each aircraft's reported altitude and weight class. No microphone is involved and none of these is an official noise measurement. Several dB of error are normal.
Get told when a low plane passes
Skylark's live map can speak up when a plane loud enough to hear is passing this point. It works while the live map is open on your screen; it cannot alert you in the background or when your phone is locked.
Saves this point as your listening point on this device only, then opens the live map.
Using this to complain
Good for patterns: how often aircraft pass, how low, at what times, on how many nights, and which runway was in use. Not a measurement: the heights are what aircraft reported, the noise is estimated, and the community receivers Skylark reads can miss aircraft, so every count is a floor rather than a total.
Dublin Airport
Dublin Airport takes noise complaints through its own process: make a complaint to Dublin Airport. Make it within seven days of the flight. The airport's WebTrak shows its own noise monitors' measurements, which are measured where Skylark's are estimated.
ANCA, the aircraft noise authority at Fingal County Council, oversees Dublin Airport's noise rules but does not handle individual complaints.
For an airport other than Dublin, contact that airport's noise or community team directly; the CSV can go with your complaint.
How these numbers are made
Counting, heights and the noise estimate
Skylark joins each aircraft's reported positions below 7,000 ft into a path and counts it once in every square of about 2.2 by 2 km that the path crosses. An aircraft that comes back more than 45 minutes later counts again. Days are UTC days; hours and nights are Irish time, and a night runs from 23:00 to 07:00.
Heights are barometric and treated as height above sea level, so over high ground an aircraft is closer than it looks here. The approach height is a standard 3° glide path ending 50 ft over the runway threshold: textbook geometry, not what any one aircraft flew.
The loudness estimate takes a typical maximum level at 1,000 ft for the aircraft's class and reduces it for distance and air absorption. N60, N65 and N70 count overflights estimated to reach 60, 65 and 70 dB at the ground directly below. Real levels depend on the engine, weight, weather and the ground.
Aircraft data © adsb.lol contributors, ODbL, and Skylark receivers. Place search © OpenStreetMap contributors. Map tiles © Esri, HERE, Garmin, © OpenStreetMap contributors. Airport-wide records are on Sky history.