BA709.FR comments:

Increase by 15 % for planes registered at least once a day, with respect to 2022, yielding a 3.5 planes increase of regisered planes per day. Comparison with the 40-50 % increase of the base rotations indicates that there is also an increase of the daily number of flights for each plane. Perceptible increase of the ocean use, away from Hourtin, however negligible with respect to the overall volume. The increase of the number of flights is only very partly absorbed by the north sector (Chollet-Thouars-Bessuire), representing about 7 % of flights. So, the increase of the fleet (17 to 25) and of the flights were  not essentially compensated by the use of new sectors, and induced an additional use of sectors already highly impacted.

BA709.FR comments: 19 % increase of registered planes daily, with respect to 2022. Still distributed on ~ 15 spots, most of them centered on roads. A dark spot to be noticed over Eglise d'Argenteuil.

BA709.FR comments:

Chollet-Thouars-Bessuire training area sharpens. Some raids south of the base (Landes, Dordogne) are observed. Ocean missions are now completely negligible. Total number of flights stable.

BA709.FR comments: training still focused on about 15 spots (most often along road axis). 10% flights increase with respect to 2022.

BA709.FR comments:

A diffuse area, Chollet-Thouars-Bessuire, between Nantes and Poitiers keeps developing. In a similar way, a diffuse operating south of Angoulême and Cognac, with a noticeable Angoulême-Ribérac axis.
Such areas contribute to absorb an increasing traffic, rather than relieve zones. The odds are that the base commandment will advertise the increase of the training zones acreage, but will omit the traffic increase.

The ocean use are now almost inexistant. It concerns now only a few fights around Oleron and Sanites islands, and very few ones offshore Hourtin.

To be noticed: a plane crashed in december. The official version broadcast to papers was that the zone was inhabited, while many housing spots at close distance from the crash spot (see our investigation here)

BA709.FR comments: The strong localisation of these exercices contribute to create genuine dark spots on the territory. This is particularly detremental, as these planes train almost every worked days in the week.

BA709.FR comments:

Three sector being developped: Bressuires, Airvault au nord de Poitiers, Issoudun à l'est. The ocean use ratio is still negligible, if not regressing. Area shelling, in particular with repeated rotations (see below) are still observed.

 
North-east of Angoulême, on march 21 and 22

BA709.FR comments: Shelled areas are still strongly located on Angoulême and south of it, as well as on a Cognac-Saintes axis. Overall number of flights decreased.

BA709.FR comments:

A slight improvment for the ocean use off Hourtin, and an increase of flights around islands, passing over La Rochelle airport, going back to Cognac base through marais rochefortais or Gironde estuary. Ocean use remains however marginal (5% of all flights). Slight extension to Dordogne, along the axis Angoulême-Figeac (a few %), as well as south of Nantes, Angers, south of Saumur. The impacted area is however essentially unchanged, as compared to past 12 months.

BA709.FR comments:

Used over territories 4 times smaller, for a number of flights only 25% less numerous, grob 120 produce as much annoyances, if not more, than Pilatus PC-21. Though they are used for the first selection phase, which involves a large amount of acrobatics, no training is performed over the ocean. These trainings are less spread than Pilatus ones, with a noticeable concentration in the south and north-east of Angouleme. Grob 120 will soon be replaced by new models, and it is considered to opt for Pilatus PC-9.