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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do people live right near airports, under flight paths, and expect zero airport noise?

Have people become this lazy? [/quote]

The planes flew over the Potomac River and more if Virginia land until 2014.

Then two things happened: NextGen gPs autopilot landing was installed all over the country for billions of $. And simultaneous with that, McLean VA community and local politicians were quick and smart enough to lobby DCA FAA to not have any flight paths over them and mainly over MoCo and NW DC.

This took the 1000s of landings and concentrated them all on the same path for the last 5 mins if their southbound approach.

Many cities with rivers are angry. There are a few solutions: create a few more GPS node flight paths so certain neighborhoods aren’t always harassed by Josie and pollution from 6am until midnight, plus the 2-4am FedEx landings. Or, go back to the Flying over the River approaches.

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Approaches do currently fly over the Potomac River but they have to get to the river somehow which means flying over communities.

Prior to 2014 approaches didn't fly over the river. They were primarily over McLean in VA before reaching the river somewhere in DC.

Flying over the river is not always the only or best option. One has to look at topography, population density, availability of other green or empty space, width of the river, land usage, historical flight patterns, etc.

Any blind calls to send flights, arrivals or approaches, over the river, especially in heavily populated urban areas, are often self-serving.

Your view does not reflect the views of all the communities involved. In the fall of 2021, Montgomery and Arlington Counties hired an aviation consultant to revise the flight path for easterly departures, i.e. the flights that turn east past Glen Echo. The new design included a shift of the flight path further east towards the center of the river and therefore towards Bethesda and Palisades. The turn east over Glen Echo would have been sooner too. The push came from a small group of MoCo residents representing one small area. Communities overwhelmingly rejected this idea and the project was abandoned.  I hope the message to people like you was loud and clear. 
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