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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure if the Palisades people prefer takeoffs (higher decibels) or landings (lower altitude, more visually distracting).  A pilot at Reagan remarked to me that the river approach from the NW has an absurdly-last-minute low-altitude right turn that violates all kinds of safety norms, making it ironic that the FAA is allowing that in their back yard.  So perhaps Reagan is biased toward using the upstream Potomac River flightpath when winds don’t strongly dictate the opposite, since it’s safer to take an early turn on a takeoff than a late turn on a landing.  Also, the upstream departure path allows for straighter routes to more destinations.  It seems to me that the bulk of my Reagan arrivals come in from the south.

Somebody have the ratio handy of upstream/downstream?[/quote]

I asked this question further up, and it would be interesting to know.  I lived in Alexandria, and IME, it is more common to have arrivals coming in from the South and departures to the North, but I don't have data on that.

If you do an online search for "Washington Reagan River Visual approach," there's quite a bit of interesting discussion.  It seems it's the pilot's call, but they encourage the river visual approach in good weather.  If visibility is limited, there is an instrument approach that takes the planes directly over Arlington. I think that's not encouraged because of the tall buildings there.

I honestly don't know what these people want the airport to do, short of shutting down the airport, and that's not going to happen. [/quote]

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