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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting how they talk about successes of similar changes north of the airport. The only neighborhood that benefitted from any changes north of the airport is Potomac. The noise actually increased for the majority of the neighborhoods including Northern Virginia and Bethesda but no post implementation studies were ever done.

All the changes north of the airport were pushed thought without any participation from the affected communities.

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How do Potomac residents have so much power over directing traffic?  There are several posts here suggesting they they somehow are able to divert all the traffic from their area towards others with early turns from the river.[/quote]

You can ask the County. I think you are specifically referring to the change in 2021. These minutes were posted here many times. This is how it went:
Potomac resident on the Working group is asking the FAA to divert the departures away from Potomac AKA "over the river"
page 3:
"Asked if the FAA would be willing to reconsider the May 2017 FAA departure proposal which 
would drop flights heading south and west to the river. For this later point in the procedure, we 
would also like to start a conversation about several jumping off points for flights to the north 
and east"

Montgomery County government rep repeating this request a bit later: page 5
"Subcommittee will be following up with the FAA on our #2 priority which may include a 
previous FAA departure proposal. There are two themes: push flights over the Potomac River 
and multiple jumping off points."

The communities such as Bethesda where the noise increased were not consulted or even informed. The FAA opened a comment period in 2020 to solicit feedback on the change and the placement of new waypoint directly over Glen Echo, but Montgomery County and the Working Group neglected to notify residents. There is zero communication to County residents from the County govt on any of these requests.

There was only one time when a proposal for presented to the community and that proposal was overwhelmingly rejected. It involved a shift of the easterly flight path towards Bethesda AKA "over the river".

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That's exactly how it goes. The link to the minutes is here. Potomac calls the shots. The County people are like their lackeys.
https://www.flyreagan.com/sites/flyreagan.com/files/legacyfiles/final_reagan_national_working_group_reg_meeting_33_summary_27_jun_2019_revised.pdf[/quote]

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