Airplane noise concerns overblown?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Recently there has been a serious uptick in aircraft noise over Navy Yard and Anacostia. Have they re-routed the planes to the east?!

Seriously. I am in SW and it has been one plane after another all damn day today.

In SW and it has been much less bad today.

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“Much less bad” being the best possible outcome. Oh, that sucks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“Much less bad” being the best possible outcome. Oh, that sucks.

Lol true but it hasn’t bothered me today either. I can hear a few but they seem farther away. And no longer one after another from 6 or 7 til evening. I’m in one of the riverfront buildings in SW.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Recently there has been a serious uptick in aircraft noise over Navy Yard and Anacostia. Have they re-routed the planes to the east?!

Seriously. I am in SW and it has been one plane after another all damn day today.

Sad but true

Seriously, anybody know if there were some official changes of flight paths?!

I used to wake up to the planes at 6am, then it was 5:45am. This morning it was 5:15. I live closer to Falls Church than to the river but still hear them.

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OLD TOWN IS SO BAD WTF

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Anonymous wrote:People in thread are clinically OCD. You all need help. FYI, DARIC is being changed sometime next year, which should lower noise along the nicest part of Bethesda (GEH, GE), so thank god for that.

What is DARIC and what is it being changed to? I live near that area of Bethesda

It's a waypoint. It's getting rerouted over Langley (on the other side of the river). They found it has a minimal impact on whatever the hell Reagan was measuring, so it looks like it will go through sometime next year.

Basically, the already lovely neighborhoods of GE and GEH will become a little nicer.

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It’s going to have a marginal effect. Only if it passes and from late 2024.
It’s still better to just not get suckered into buying under a flight path. MoCo group literally states their goal as working to “reclaim the livability” of their homes. I feel for these guys, that’s terrible.

Good sources:
https://www.mocoquietskies.org/
https://cagtown.org/join-give/dc-fair-skies/
https://x.com/palisadesn/status/1678498993083498498?s=46&t=RFOp9btBA36axwryPaOF0Q

[Anonymous]

There are too many flights after 10 pm - it's ridiculous - one even took of last night at just after 1 am...and they start as early as 5:15 am - we never get a break

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I saw one Palisades neighbor say putting in new windows didn't really fix anything.

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At least you don't live near Dulles. They had to change flight paths due to winds last weekend and they were literally flying over my house every 90 seconds. It was so loud.

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We had this last night b/c State Dinner. I don't think I could tolerate it on a daily basis

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Foxhall is horrendous. A plane flies by every 25 seconds. It has been a nightmare, I am losing my sanity. The most expensive place I’ve rented in my life and it is uninhabitable.

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I don't understand how people can live in a major city that is NEAR a major international airport and not expect airplane noise. If not your neighborhood, then the neighborhood up the road. What exactly is DCA supposed to do about this?

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Anonymous wrote:Foxhall is horrendous. A plane flies by every 25 seconds. It has been a nightmare, I am losing my sanity. The most expensive place I’ve rented in my life and it is uninhabitable.

Stop trolling.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't air traffic patterns change all the time though? After awhile you hardly even notice it. You can't have it all, a lovely home, in a great neighborhood, with great schools, and great neighbors, a home that appreciates at a steady rate, with no risk of flooding, and zero crime, AND no air traffic. You have to give something up.

No. They don't. There is essentially one runway at DCA, and planes can't fly over the White House, Capitol, etc.

So, no.

I dunno looks like the do https://simpleflying.com/faa-washington-air-traffic/

This was a pretty minor change that redistributed the noise between already heavily affected areas. Since they did this there is a bit less noise over Georgetown and Foxhall and more over Virginia. The path still follows the river though and that is unlikely to change.

https://simpleflying.com/faa-washington-air-traffic/

As others point out, you are incorrect that this was done to redistribute the noise between DC and Arlington. The FAA would not be "redistributing the noise". The change happened in response to a request from the secret service to keep the flight path further away from the prohibited areas. It was not a minor change. However, the Potomac residents and members of the Montgomery County delegation on the Community Noise Working Group at National airport used that opportunity to ask the FAA to also make changes in MoCo by shifting the flightpath away from Potomac and towards the river. In response to that request the FAA moved the flight path south towards Carderock and River Falls.

The process is described here. The map on page 4 shows in yellow the areas where the noise has increased as a result.

https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/air_traffic/community_engagement/dca_p56/MD_SHPO_Notice_of_Availability_Letter_DCA_Permanent_HOLTB.pdf