Where is airplane noise not a huge issue in DC metro? Does this place exist?

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Anonymous wrote:Falls Church, no airplanes, lots of helicopters.

Same in n Arlington near McLean.

Yup, same with Capitol Hill

Can confirm. Plenty of helicopters, but the only plane I've heard in the past several years was when there was a flyover at Nationals Park.

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Anonymous wrote:Where is this magical place in dc metro that doesn't have planes flying overhead? We thought we would be deep in and away from Potomac river, but it's getting unbearable here to open windows or use the deck. A very pricey area too, with multi million dollar homes, surprised how owners of these expensive homes don't complain. Is this normal or are there bad and good days? Seems like there is airplane noise every day, but some days it's like living on a landing strip with planes overhead every minute! I am fine with 1 plane per 10 min, to get some peace and finally hear the noises of nature (which is why we moved to the burbs), but it's never ending? Is there some traffic rerouting happening? We are in NOVA suburb near Mclean downtown which isn't close to Potomac at all.

We are in McLean near Old Dominion -Chesterbrook areas and we only get occasional/very little airplane noise, but we do get helicopters several times a day and military fly overs more than once a month.

We aren't that far from there.. Hmm, how come you don't hear it? Do you keep your windows closed? Today it's really bad.. Do you not hear it?

. Windows are open these days. Which side of Old Dominion are you? Haven’t heard much lately.

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Very little in Town of Vienna

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I live in the Palisades and have not heard a plane all day. And we supposedly live basically on the tarmac according to some posters.

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DC area born and raised, and I have never had issues with airplane noise in any of the places I have lived.

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I'm in Chevy Chase and there are some helicopters, but not a ton. We are near the Chevy Chase library.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, you said you get 30 seconds of peace between planes. Did you not hear it when you toured the home before purchasing?

No, it's the crazy thing, it wasn't nearly so bad when we bought. And we also remodeled, so we didn't live in it for a while, but I remember only occasional plane, not this constant flow of air traffic. Some days it's not that bad, planes aren't that frequent and you can even enjoy the deck. But these last few days had been terrible. It's not in the flight path, so what gives?

PP you are probably not going crazy. There was a realignment/deployment of new technology that realigned flight paths in this area. I believe that means the flights that used to be kind of scattered around among a much larger geographical area are now redistributed by computer modeling to follow the precise same flight path over and over and over in the name of efficiency.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, you said you get 30 seconds of peace between planes. Did you not hear it when you toured the home before purchasing?

No, it's the crazy thing, it wasn't nearly so bad when we bought. And we also remodeled, so we didn't live in it for a while, but I remember only occasional plane, not this constant flow of air traffic. Some days it's not that bad, planes aren't that frequent and you can even enjoy the deck. But these last few days had been terrible. It's not in the flight path, so what gives?

PP you are probably not going crazy. There was a realignment/deployment of new technology that realigned flight paths in this area. I believe that means the flights that used to be kind of scattered around among a much larger geographical area are now redistributed by computer modeling to follow the precise same flight path over and over and over in the name of efficiency.

http://www.mocoquietskies.org/

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Anonymous wrote:OP, you said you get 30 seconds of peace between planes. Did you not hear it when you toured the home before purchasing?

No, it's the crazy thing, it wasn't nearly so bad when we bought. And we also remodeled, so we didn't live in it for a while, but I remember only occasional plane, not this constant flow of air traffic. Some days it's not that bad, planes aren't that frequent and you can even enjoy the deck. But these last few days had been terrible. It's not in the flight path, so what gives?

PP you are probably not going crazy. There was a realignment/deployment of new technology that realigned flight paths in this area. I believe that means the flights that used to be kind of scattered around among a much larger geographical area are now redistributed by computer modeling to follow the precise same flight path over and over and over in the name of efficiency.

http://www.mocoquietskies.org/

OP is in or near McLean. These changes according to the site are several years old. And it says planes as often as every 1-3 minutes. OP reports every 30 seconds. I think OP needs to figure out where the planes are coming or going from first. I find it hard to believe it’s as bad as reported.

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Park View. Lots of sirens though

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Anonymous wrote:Falls Church, no airplanes, lots of helicopters.

Same in n Arlington near McLean.

Yup, same with Capitol Hill

Southwest Waterfront, same. I rarely hear planes, but helicopters, sirens on 695, all the time. Fireworks from Nats Park, leaf blowers and construction noises are much much worse than all of the above.

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West Springfield- I have lived here 10 years, and have heard plane noise once? twice?

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Anonymous wrote:What's the big deal? You get used to it. I live under a flight path (Brookmont) and I'm listening to a plane right now. It's not ruining my quality of life. People around here worry way too much about flight paths.

How many planes per minute do you hear all day long? It's incredibly disturbing, more so than the hum of the highway, which is more like white noise. I think it's the frequency that's making this so bad. I can tolerate a plane or a train every now and then, even once every 10 min would be ok for a plane to fly overhead. But 1-2 every single minute NON STOP, I cannot get used to this. Especially since I wanted to escape to a quite place and hear sounds of nature. I don't get bothered by construction noises, barking dogs, kids playing at a playground, even occasional sirens and helicopters. They go away, airplane traffic just never ceases whenever they have the days where every single plane is routed over our area.

You sound seriously crazy OP. And backwards.

You have clearly never lived directly under a flight path.

I live walking distance (maybe running distance) to National Airport. It's seriously no big deal.

Are you routinely directly under a flight path? It makes a big difference. I live near BWI and regularly tune out the airport noise. However, certain weather conditions or runway repairs can change the normal flight patterns making planes take off or land directly over our house. Takeoff is the worst. You cannot tune this out.

Yes, I am. I can FEEL the planes taking off if I truly focus on it.

But if I go about my business, it's like they're not even there. You get totally and completely used to it.

I honestly think those of you that are bothered by this are nuts or have some really odd kind of noise affliction. Or you live in someplace that is so insanely quiet that you can't *not* focus on it.

There are so many other sounds that are infinitely more annoying.

When you go about your day and you are indoors and your windows are closed it's easy to not notice it. But this certainly makes enjoying your outdoor space very difficult, because when you are trying to relax sitting on the deck you aren't really there to go about your business or focus on something else, you are there to enjoy nature around you and peace and quiet. Then you want to open the windows to air out the place, to breathe fresh air you moved to the burbs to have access to. Do you not really see the difference? This simple life's pleasure is denied to those of us who live directly under a flight path. We have planes flying at a distance, we can see them in the sky, and it's literally one plane after another, and it's landing, not taking off. Apparently the landing flight path had been altered and now they fly closer inland (not over the river) which would affect a large stretch of residential areas from Arlington to Great falls that are maybe 1-2 miles from the river. It's one plane after another, I observed it last night. It was ok during the day, about every 5 min on avg and in the afternoon it was like every plane landing was flying over the area.

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Anonymous wrote:What's the big deal? You get used to it. I live under a flight path (Brookmont) and I'm listening to a plane right now. It's not ruining my quality of life. People around here worry way too much about flight paths.

How many planes per minute do you hear all day long? It's incredibly disturbing, more so than the hum of the highway, which is more like white noise. I think it's the frequency that's making this so bad. I can tolerate a plane or a train every now and then, even once every 10 min would be ok for a plane to fly overhead. But 1-2 every single minute NON STOP, I cannot get used to this. Especially since I wanted to escape to a quite place and hear sounds of nature. I don't get bothered by construction noises, barking dogs, kids playing at a playground, even occasional sirens and helicopters. They go away, airplane traffic just never ceases whenever they have the days where every single plane is routed over our area.

You sound seriously crazy OP. And backwards.

You have clearly never lived directly under a flight path.

I live walking distance (maybe running distance) to National Airport. It's seriously no big deal.

Are you routinely directly under a flight path? It makes a big difference. I live near BWI and regularly tune out the airport noise. However, certain weather conditions or runway repairs can change the normal flight patterns making planes take off or land directly over our house. Takeoff is the worst. You cannot tune this out.

Yes, I am. I can FEEL the planes taking off if I truly focus on it.

But if I go about my business, it's like they're not even there. You get totally and completely used to it.

I honestly think those of you that are bothered by this are nuts or have some really odd kind of noise affliction. Or you live in someplace that is so insanely quiet that you can't *not* focus on it.

There are so many other sounds that are infinitely more annoying.

When you go about your day and you are indoors and your windows are closed it's easy to not notice it. But this certainly makes enjoying your outdoor space very difficult, because when you are trying to relax sitting on the deck you aren't really there to go about your business or focus on something else, you are there to enjoy nature around you and peace and quiet. Then you want to open the windows to air out the place, to breathe fresh air you moved to the burbs to have access to. Do you not really see the difference? This simple life's pleasure is denied to those of us who live directly under a flight path. We have planes flying at a distance, we can see them in the sky, and it's literally one plane after another, and it's landing, not taking off. Apparently the landing flight path had been altered and now they fly closer inland (not over the river) which would affect a large stretch of residential areas from Arlington to Great falls that are maybe 1-2 miles from the river. It's one plane after another, I observed it last night. It was ok during the day, about every 5 min on avg and in the afternoon it was like every plane landing was flying over the area.

Yikes.

What is this perception that the suburbs are peace and quiet? They're still densely populated compared to most of the country with people, movement and activities. I'm sorry you hate background noise... I couldn't care less... but you can always move to a rural enclave somewhere in the middle of nowhere now that we have WFH. How about The Village?

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Anonymous wrote:I lived on the North side of Old Town for fifteen years. Morning takeoffs would shake my place, especially when cloudy. I could occasionally smell jet fuel (a smell I actually love). And I heard almost every plane. And not once did it ever bother me a bit. It was like background noise you'd forget.

OP, you need to get a grip.

Ok, this is entirely personal and your preference. I am explaining to you that one of the reasons to move to the burbs for us was to have access to fresh air and private outdoors, so obviously a place where you live (not denying that it might be awesome for other reasons) would not even be on our radar when searching for homes. I would automatically rule out any places close to the airport or too close to highways or on busy roads.