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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you said you get 30 seconds of peace between planes. Did you not hear it when you toured the home before purchasing?[/quote]

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?[/quote]

I looked at the Flight Aware app and there are no planes anywhere near McLean. Reston and Springfield are the closest areas with planes. It seems odd that you are hearing such frequent planes but they aren’t commercial airliners. And every 30 seconds seems unsafely close together.[/quote]

At busy airports, planes can definitely take off every 30-60 seconds. But there’s no airport in this region that is that busy. A bit of an overreaction by OP[/quote]

Real questions, I swear! Can they take off on the same direction? Or would they have to use a different runway going in a different direction? (And so wouldn’t be OP’s scenario of hearing them every 30 seconds unless they were super close to their airport.) And what airports are this busy? [/quote]

Yes, most often they would use the same runway or two  parallel runways. Depending on the airport, they may use runways that cross each other, but that's more unusual. They never will take off in opposite directions with that frequency - if they need to switch runway directions (due to wind direction), there is a pause in airport operations so facilitate this switch in a safe manner. Remember, there are planes in the air that sometimes line up hundreds of miles out so that all needs to be switched around and planned for accordingly.

You wouldn't hear a plane every 30 seconds unless you are very close to the takeoff or approach flight path at a major airport like Atlanta, Chicago O'Hare, Heathrow, etc. Or maybe a major military base. But even still, highly unlikely and you definitely would have been aware when your toured the house prior to purchasing. (Also, just look at a map).[/quote]

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