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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We live next to Glen Echo and are sometimes in the flight path. Your brain learns to tune it out, just like it does with other background noise. I can be in the backyard and not notice it unless a friend who is visiting brings it up.

The only time it's obvious is when it's a certain level of clouds so the planes have to fly really low below them on approach, but that's not common.

I used to live in an apartment next to a bunch of bars. Every morning at 5am, trucks would come to pick up the trash cans of glass beer bottles and taht was quite a sound. I noticed it the first week I lived there, then tuned it out after a week as my brain adjusted.

Same with road noise, which you'll see at some neighborhoods in Glen Echo or nearby -- you can hear the hum of the Beltway, but only if you really listen for it or are not used to it.

The brain's an amazing thing.[/quote]

The pollution that comes with those planes is something you can’t do anything about though, and the evidence that it’s very harmful in the long term is overwhelming. It’s stuff like heart and lung disease, dementia, asthma in children, cognitive difficulties, shortened lifespan. None of it from the noise, just the ultra fine particles released by the planes and pushed straight down at and into you on closer to departure and take off areas. The noise poses it’s own risks and they only abate with hearing loss that comes in older age because of that noise.
Shortened life span and chronic disease, no thanks.[/quote]

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