I live on the London Heathrow flight path and have a few hundred planes fly over my house each day on finals to land on runway 27R descending 2500-2000ft. Heathrow run a noise abatement schedule throughout the day and night where they change the runways to share the noise load across residents in different areas - this switches weekly and during the day. Also for operational reasons they will change the runways in use. I love aircraft, so have absolutely no problems with the noise. However I did want a way of knowing which runways are in use for arrivals and when.
So, I created two integrations with four sensors:
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Heathrow Landings reads a local copy of the Landings schedule as published by London Heathrow Airport and gives you three sensors Morning, Afternoon and Night planned runways.
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Heathrow Arrivals checks the live EGLL ATIS to determine the current arrivals runway in use.
This way you know what the planned runways are for today and the actual current runway in use. I show this on my main home dashboards, however you could also link this to automations like closing windows etc should the runway that puts the aircraft flight path over your house become active.