Helicopters all day from WH going north?

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Helicopters take this route because they are required to. They follow the river to the beltway and then follow the beltway or 95 to wherever they are going. It is supposed to limit noise to a large extent. In DC we do not see these impacts as much because we are in special airspace.

I don't think this was the sort of traffic the OP was talking about. It definitely was not what I was describing. Helicopters tend to use Rock Creek Park as a flight path, but the ones I was seeing the other day were to the East of there. I don't think they were as active yesterday.

And if it was the normal route, we'd be used to it by now. Hearing a lot of helicopters in Bethesda, too, although less now than before the election, when they were flying in a grid pattern over the area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Helicopters take this route because they are required to. They follow the river to the beltway and then follow the beltway or 95 to wherever they are going. It is supposed to limit noise to a large extent. In DC we do not see these impacts as much because we are in special airspace.

I don't think this was the sort of traffic the OP was talking about. It definitely was not what I was describing. Helicopters tend to use Rock Creek Park as a flight path, but the ones I was seeing the other day were to the East of there. I don't think they were as active yesterday.

And if it was the normal route, we'd be used to it by now. Hearing a lot of helicopters in Bethesda, too, although less now than before the election, when they were flying in a grid pattern over the area.

The grid patterns were probably the ongoing background radiation study mentioned earlier.