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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow I'm just finding this thread!

Just moved to Kalorama (yes it is a lovely neighborhood and I am grateful) but I am finding the plane noise to be terrible on North flow days (when they are taking off in our direction) They thunder and echo through the sky from 6 am till near midnight, sometimes at a rate of every 90 seconds. I've waited 54 years to have a small outdoor space and now I can't enjoy it at all. Already thinking of moving.[/quote]

You sound extra sensitive. I can’t imagine how the planes can be so loud in Kalorama when following the river path and now mostly flying much closer to the Virginia side. [/quote]
They fly over residential areas of VA way inland from the river and they fly low, you would think airport is nearby when it's pretty far, not sure why they fly so low.  There are flight paths that veer off from Potomac into residential parts of Arlington and Mclean and probably FC and Alexandria.  When I am in DT Mclean I see they fly in lines over residential homes. I also see planes making turns over dense residential areas and this makes noise linger as planes fly in lines spaced by about a minute. [/quote]NP. I live in western part of McLean near Giant grocery, 4 miles away from the Potomac River. This part of  town do not get plane noises because the DCA planes always follow the river. But closer in, they set up 2 noise monitors: one near Langley high school and another at Franklin Park/Chesterbrook.

The planes change directions couple of times a day, but departures/arrivals aways use the same path which is along the river on both sides of the states. Hence, there are noise monitors from: Potomac, Cabin John, CIA McLean, Arlington, Georgetown, Alexandria, to Fort Washington. [/quote]

you absolutely can see planes flying in lines if you are at Giant in Mclean, they aren't directly overhead there, but you can hear them in DT mcLean when you are shopping.  They are closer to Langley on one side and Arlington to the other.  You would think CIA would be a deterrent to send planes that direction, but apparently it isn't.  [/quote]

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