Does noise from Farnborough Airport bother you? - The present flight path can bring aeroplanes in over parts of Knaphill. Would you be concerned if there were more flights, outside the present operating hours?

TAG Farnborough Airport are currently preparing an ‘Airport Master Plan’. For this, they have issued a preliminary consultation document and questionnaire asking, for example, how you would be affected if the airport’s operating hours, currently limited to the daytime, were extended. They make the points in the consultation document that their infrastructure is underused, and that as an important business (rather than commercial) airport they contribute to economic growth and local employment. Farnborough is also famous for its biennial airshow.

I would prefer not to see any increase in air traffic of any sort encouraged. This is on environmental grounds. I would like to see businessmen encouraged to use teleconferencing or travel by train, and rich people discouraged from owning and using private jets. OK, maybe I’m motivated partly by ideology and a pinch of jealousy.

You do not have to share my reasons get online at www.farnboroughairportconsultation.com  to complete the questionnaire and, among all the questions designed to elicit responses in favour of Farnborough airport’s expansion, tick the boxes that show you don’t think this is a good idea.