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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's the big deal? You get used to it. I live under a flight path (Brookmont) and I'm listening to a plane right now. It's not ruining my quality of life. People around here worry way too much about flight paths.[/quote]

How many planes per minute do you hear all day long? It's incredibly disturbing, more so than the hum of the highway, which is more like white noise. I think it's the frequency that's making this so bad.  I can tolerate a plane or a train every now and then, even once every 10 min would be ok for a plane to fly overhead.  But 1-2 every single minute NON STOP, I cannot get used to this.  Especially since I wanted to escape to a quite place and hear sounds of nature.  I don't get bothered by construction noises, barking dogs, kids playing at a playground, even occasional sirens and helicopters. They go away, airplane traffic just never ceases whenever they have the days where every single plane is routed over our area. [/quote]

You sound seriously crazy OP. And backwards.
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You have clearly never lived directly under a flight path. [/quote]

I live walking distance (maybe running distance) to National Airport. It's seriously no big deal. 
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Are you routinely directly under a flight path? It makes a big difference. I live near BWI and regularly tune out the airport noise.  However, certain weather conditions or runway repairs can change the normal flight patterns making planes take off or land directly over our house. Takeoff is the worst. You cannot tune this out.  [/quote]

Yes, I am. I can FEEL the planes taking off if I truly focus on it.

But if I go about my business, it's like they're not even there. You get totally and completely used to it.

I honestly think those of you that are bothered by this are nuts or have some really odd kind of noise affliction. Or you live in someplace that is so insanely quiet that you can't *not* focus on it.

There are so many other sounds that are infinitely more annoying. [/quote]

When you go about your day and you are indoors and your windows are closed it's easy to not notice it. But this certainly makes enjoying your outdoor space very difficult, because when you are trying to relax sitting on the deck you aren't really there to go about your business or focus on something else, you are there to enjoy nature around you and peace and quiet. Then you want to open the windows to air out the place, to breathe fresh air you moved to the burbs to have access to. Do you not really see the difference? This simple life's pleasure is denied to those of us who live directly under a flight path.  We have planes flying at a distance, we can see them in the sky, and it's literally one plane after another, and it's landing, not taking off.  Apparently, the landing flight path had been altered and now they fly closer inland (not over the river) which would affect a large stretch of residential areas from Arlington to Great falls that are maybe 1-2 miles from the river.  It's one plane after another, I observed it last night.  It was ok during the day, about every 5 min on avg and in the afternoon it was like every plane landing was flying over the area.  [/quote]

+2  There are many studies about the impacts of air traffic noise and health, including increased risk of high blood pressure and heart disease, not to mention sleep disruption.

If you google Next Gen noise pollution, you will see that in recent years, the FAA consolidated flight paths to make them more efficient and potentially more environmentally friendly. However, the tradeoff is that more aircraft fly lower over residential areas. Most of the aircraft traffic, which previously had been more scattered, follows a precise route, meaning that if you happen to live under that route, you are likely to experience a great increase in the amount of traffic and level of noise from lower flying aircraft. Some of these areas rarely had aircraft noise before NextGen was implemented and now have a steady stream of flyovers every five minutes.

[/quote]Thanks for the info, it might explain this... How horrible.  So, what do we do now? WE need to organize and get together to have this changed, it's not fair that one stretch gets all the traffic, so all this super expensive desirable RE is now going to collapse? We need to sell now and I don't want to after all the effort we put into this place.  I am sure we aren't alone, so many bought multi-million dollar homes, I am sure they aren't happy.  I think it should be fair and dispersed, so that we get a plane maybe every 10 min and other areas get them too, not one area gets every single landing plane, this is the worst design ever and a disaster [/quote]

Is the traffic from Dulles or National?

You can track the noise levels and departures on the websites

Dulles
[url]https://webtrak.emsbk.com/iad[/url]

National
[url]https://webtrak.emsbk.com/dca[/url]

You can also file noise complaints or make inquiries.

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