Do you know where I can find a map of flight paths from Norwich
airport - one that overlays a regular map of the town - i'm thinking
of buying a house there and want to see what areas are affected by
aircraft noise (especially the suburbs) - I'm not looking for any
complicated air traffic control maps, just a simple overlay of where
aircraft fly both on take off and landing at the airport

Gsloman --

I don't know the Norwich Airport well enough to know its traffic but
have flown extensively in the U.S. and am familiar with airport
operations here:
*  general aviation aircraft fly a rectangular pattern around the
runways, with approaches parallel to runways but 1 mile distant
*  for commercial aircraft, they tend to fly the instrument
approaches, straight in.  You can acquire instrument approach plates
from a variety of services and they're undoubtedly also available
printed from a flight shop.  These plates are interesting because they
show minimum altitude profiles.  Here's one such source online:
 http://www.dauntless-soft.com/PRODUCTS/SimPlates/
*  in the U.S., noise monitoring is the responsibility of the airport
manager.  They keep an active map of noise complaints and it's a
public record.  Indeed, you might be well-served to talk to the
airport manager.

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

i appreciate your comments omnivorous - thanks for your time - but
i've managed to find the info now from the airport themselves - in my
rush to assume everything's on google i did what i always do - i
forgot about the phone!