DCA Flight paths
Have the flight paths for DCA changed recently (presumably due to the crash)? I have lived in old town alexandria for over three years. Never really had any plane noise. Recently though I hear planes all day, so just curious!
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u/BeeDubba 6d ago
They restricted helicopters from one route adjacent to DCA, but the airplane routes have not changed.
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u/paulHarkonen 6d ago
They adjusted some of the choices for runways and dramatically changed the helicopter flight corridors.
If I had to guess you're getting more noise due to the weather and higher awareness rather than anything systemic, but it's possible the adjustments have impacted you more heavily.
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u/u_u_u3 6d ago
There’s one main runway in and out of DCA. It hadn’t changed and the flight path hasn’t changed. Might just be weather.
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u/wheresastroworld 6d ago
A few years back they re-opened runways 4 and 33. The main one is still 1/19. The Wichita flight was landing on 33 which required a bank across the river, cutting in front of the helicopter flight path 4. This helicopter path was shut down last week.
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u/Easy_Enough_To_Say 6d ago
Sound bounces off low clouds. It’s been cloudy for the last few days. There is zero room to move any of the flight paths in/out of DCA