airplane noise in foxhall village?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:More flights coming to DCA. The runway at DCA is officially the busiest runway in the US. One flight every minute. There will be more late night and early morning flights and bigger and noisier airplanes.

https://www.protectregionalairports.com/2024/02/08/senate-committee-irresponsibly-approves-more-flights-at-dca/

Southwest is one of the airlines applying for the additional slots. The company has also just announced that it will start offering red-eye flights. So, more nighttime operations?

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/25/investing/southwest-airlines-assigned-seats/index.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow

I agree with you. It’s horrible here.
Unbelievable

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure about Foxhall village but Alexandria has become hell on earth with plane noise. Literally a 60-70dB noise every 1-2 minutes. I can’t imagine the amount of ultra fine particle pollution that we are all inhaling as residents of the DMV. Hopefully future generations can do better.

Thank you for saying this. Somebody on the thread referred to the change in departures in 2021 as just a minor change. It was like a slap in the face to many residents in Virginia.

Agree- thankfully we can only hear the airplanes in our house as "white noise." I really only notice it when I'm the first one awake in the morning, or when I'm rocking my baby. It's barely there, but it was never there at all before 2021. When I take walks to neighborhoods closer to the river, it sounds like a 747 is about to land on my head. I cannot imagine how horrible it must be to live there.

Where do you live? The change in 2021 involved north flow departures only. It was a two part process. 1. At the request of the Secret Service the FAA shifted the departures from Georgetown/Foxhall towards Virginia, 2. At the request of the Montgomery County delegation on the DCA Noise Working Group, the FAA shifted the same flight path from Avenel to Carderock and also closer to the neighborhoods by the river i.e. Westmoreland Hills, Sumner, Brookmont, Mohican Hills.

It got really bad in Bethesda in 2021 when the DCA Community Working Group asked the FAA to move the flight path to the east. There was no outreach to any of the communities negatively affected by the change.