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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]

I should have videotaped it, there was a plane every minute.  The reason why it's every 30 sec noise is because noise carries and you don't just hear it when the plane is directly over, but also when it's approaching and leaving, this is what 30 sec of peace means, it's when it quiet.  It was 100% every minute a new plane (all planes landing in dca) went our way, every single one of them.  Shocking, right? I would expect that there would be another way to approach dca from other directions, but it looked like every plane landed along the land stretch 1-2 miles from the Potomac, which would affect the wooded parts of GF, Mclean, Arlington.  Maybe that's why those in Alexandria and dc no long hear them.  I guess people lobbied and got the flight paths changed, so now we got all the traffic. Ugh.  I hope this isn't forever[/quote]

I hope you do videotape it because I’d love to see the planes landing every minute at DCA with 100
Percent noise all day long. It would make it by far the busiest airport in the world. 
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