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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been listening to the planes all night while trying to read.  It's miserable.  Tried talking to "the working group" and basically was gaslighted that this noise is all in my head.

I appreciated the PP who said that he hears it and his wife doesn't.  Same.  Doesn't bother my husband in the least because he's a little hard of hearing at 67.  He wants to move to Georgetown (even worse than our neighborhood) and I told him to forget it.

I think the only solution is to drastically scale down the number of flights in and out of DCA. [/quote]

Speaking of gaslighting on the Working Group, here's an email sent by the Montgomery County reps to a resident who observed that the change in the flight path pushed through by the Working Group shifted airplanes closer to other communities. The Working Group reps claim it is not possible for the human eye to notice that. Here's their e-mail:

"determining the location (ground track)  from the ground by a single observer is  next to impossible.  The observer would need a theodolite and would have to work in concert with other observers, also with theodolites.  There are so many factors working against s single observer, the best that can be done is to get a casual idea of what’s going on.

For example, it would be natural to look at which way the nose of the aircraft is pointing and assume that’s the direction it is flying.  However,  that’s not the case.  The winds can cause the pilot to turn the plane into the direction of the wind to maintain course.
(similar to a boat on a lake).  This presents a confusing picture from the ground.

Also, it's hard to distinguish distance to the plane — simply because our personal reference frame can’t deal with how big the planes are.  Through our life we get pretty good at it because we naturally get trained to the size of things - people, cars, horses, etc. and their distance from us.  The average person doesn’t live in an environment of big stuff and doesn’t get trained accordingly.  This also fuzzies up our perception."

Gaslighting at its finest.

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