"Bejeeber" wrote in message
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My current house in the Warm Beach area of Stanwood, Wa 98292 gets
buzzed by small planes all the time - I seem to be on some sort of
regular "route" for planes from Seattle to the San Juans?

Well I'll be moving pretty soon - probably to Athens, GA - and I don't
wish to make the same mistake of locating myself in a neighborhood
that's regularly buzzed over again.

Is there some website I can go to with maps or whatever that will allow
me to find whether a given neighborhood will have busy overhead
traffic, whether small planes or airliners?

While Stanwood is pretty much directly between Arlington Airport and the San
Juan Islands, I've got bad news for you: you aren't actually on any "regular
route". You live in an somewhat urban area, which means airplanes are
flying around all the time. Some are going to or from the San Juans...most
are just flying around for other reasons.

You will have the same issue in any urban area. Nor is there any reliable
means of identifying "regular routes" for all but the largest airplanes
going to and from a large commercial airport. General aviation traffic is
*much* less uniform than that.

That said, if you are really interested, one thing that you can do is try to
see if the local ATC radar facility (at Athens, that's probably Atlanta
Center...possibly it would be close enough that Atlanta Approach would be
useful too) can provide you with a daily or weekly chart of the radar
returns. I know here in the Seattle area, Seattle Approach makes those
available if one asks, and they provide a decent idea of where the most
dense air traffic is.

Keeping in mind, of course, that such a graph will be dominated by
commercial airliners. Smaller airplanes will constitute a relatively small
portion of the total traffic, and some of the general aviation traffic won't
even be on the chart, due to flying below reliable radar coverage. But at
least you can avoid the worst that way.

That said, my guess is that if you are annoyed by the relatively light
traffic that goes over the Stanwood area, you are unlikely to find true
"peace and quiet" unless you avoid living near any significant city at all.
Most of us probably wouldn't characterize the amount of air traffic in the
Stanwood area as being "buzzed by small planes all the time" (to me, "all
the time" implies a relatively constant flow of traffic, which I am sure
does not exist in the Stanwood area, given how light air traffic is in and
around that area when I fly through it).

So I wouldn't get your hopes up. You should probably make sure whatever
house you buy has good quality double- or triple-paned windows and make your
own quiet.

Pete