Now that the hospital is closed, Cheverly has very little airplane noise unless there is a traffic accident on 295 or 50 and then the helicopters just circle.....

Downtown Bethesda. No planes, but certain days, there are a few loud helicopters. They don't bother me, but then again I lived some years of my childhood next to a train station in Paris... nothing like the night train to make the next day super-interesting! Not.

We have very little airplane noise. I hear a jet a couple of times a week, near Aspen Hill, MoCo.

VA Square area in Arlington is fine. Sometimes hear them taking off in the morning if they switch the takeoff direction, but that's the exception not the rule. Sometimes hear helicopter noise, but it's not frequent at all.

Anonymous wrote:We are in Chevy Chase and hardly ever hear planes but we have ALL THE HELICOPTERS.

Same in Shepherd Park. Very occasional planes but the helicopter traffic is nuts.

OP, you can take a look at flight tracking apps like FlightRadar24 and get a sense of RL routes for all kinds of craft.

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Anonymous wrote:Almost everywhere?

Are you the same person who was complaining about this on a prior thread like it was some sort of enormous hardship?

No.. this is my first post. We recently moved from a place by the highway to be somewhere quiet and I was shocked that it feels like we are right by the airport while being many miles away and supposedly ( looking at maps) NOT in the flight path... It's literally 30 sec of peace at most I get between the planes all day long! It's crazy, I cannot believe people pay so much money to live in what used to be the plague of marginal and poor neighborhoods that tend to be near the airports. Yes, it's a hardship, I cannot open windows or use the deck, which was a whole purpose moving to the burbs

Sorry Karen

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Anonymous wrote:OP, you said you get 30 seconds of peace between planes. Did you not hear it when you toured the home before purchasing?

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?

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.

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

Real questions, I swear! Can they take off on the same direction? Or would they have to use a different runway going in a different direction? (And so wouldn’t be OP’s scenario of hearing them every 30 seconds unless they were super close to their airport.) And what airports are this busy?

Yes, most often they would use the same runway or two parallel runways. Depending on the airport, they may use runways that cross each other, but that's more unusual. They never will take off in opposite directions with that frequency - if they need to switch runway directions (due to wind direction), there is a pause in airport operations so facilitate this switch in a safe manner. Remember, there are planes in the air that sometimes line up hundreds of miles out so that all needs to be switched around and planned for accordingly.

You wouldn't hear a plane every 30 seconds unless you are very close to the takeoff or approach flight path at a major airport like Atlanta, Chicago O'Hare, Heathrow, etc. Or maybe a major military base. But even still, highly unlikely and you definitely would have been aware when your toured the house prior to purchasing. (Also, just look at a map).

Anonymous wrote:Where is this magical place in dc metro that doesn't have planes flying overhead? We thought we would be deep in and away from Potomac river, but it's getting unbearable here to open windows or use the deck. A very pricey area too, with multi million dollar homes, surprised how owners of these expensive homes don't complain. Is this normal or are there bad and good days? Seems like there is airplane noise every day, but some days it's like living on a landing strip with planes overhead every minute! I am fine with 1 plane per 10 min, to get some peace and finally hear the noises of nature (which is why we moved to the burbs), but it's never ending? Is there some traffic rerouting happening? We are in NOVA suburb near Mclean downtown which isn't close to Potomac at all.

Unbearable, really? Be grateful you don't have real problems.

Cleveland Park. No plane noise, just occasional helicopters and motorcades.

OP thinks that airplanes should only fly over poor neighborhoods.

No, 4 pages in and it’s pretty clear that this does not bother most people.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, you said you get 30 seconds of peace between planes. Did you not hear it when you toured the home before purchasing?

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?

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.

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

Real questions, I swear! Can they take off on the same direction? Or would they have to use a different runway going in a different direction? (And so wouldn’t be OP’s scenario of hearing them every 30 seconds unless they were super close to their airport.) And what airports are this busy?

4 pages in and it's pretty clear that most places don't have airplane noise, OP.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, you said you get 30 seconds of peace between planes. Did you not hear it when you toured the home before purchasing?

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?

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.

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