where to see routes on internet?

Hey, sorry to be kind of crashing this group since I'm not a pilot.

I bet y'all can help me though.

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?

Thanks.

You can purchase a chart (map) of the local airways anywhere in the
country. However I would suggest you contact the local Flight Standard
District Office (FSDO) in Atlanta and ask about the local air traffic
from different airports. They are located at:

Altanta FSDO
1701 Columbia Avenue
College Park, GA 30337
(404) 305-7200

Ask to speak to a pilot or operations person.

Small aircraft can fly from 500 feet and up, most stay above 1,000
feet, but it still makes a lot of noise. The FAA operations person can
explain this to you and let you know which small airports are in the
area you want to live.

Stache

Thanks Stache - I'll be calling that # to get info.

I think part of my problem here is that we're sort of on a bluff near
the water, so planes that are well above 1,000 feet over the water are
kinda low when they go over our house, and the reason I'm thinking
we're on some kind of regular route is both the frequency with which
planes pass over, and the fact that I can often look straight up thru
my kitchen skylight and see the plane zip past (!!!).

"Bejeeber" wrote in message
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Thanks Stache - I'll be calling that # to get info.

I think part of my problem here is that we're sort of on a bluff near
the water, so planes that are well above 1,000 feet over the water are
kinda low when they go over our house, and the reason I'm thinking
we're on some kind of regular route is both the frequency with which
planes pass over, and the fact that I can often look straight up thru
my kitchen skylight and see the plane zip past (!!!).

Then tell the females in your house to quit sunbathing in the nude...
dirty-old-man-grin

Buy a place as close as possible to a nuclear power plant,
or a presidential residence or get ear plugs. Airplanes can
fly almost anywhere. Best to live in a all concrete jungle
so there are no leaf blowers or lawn mowers. A small town
without bus service will be quiet.
Cozumel should be very quiet, but you'll need a boat.



"Bejeeber" wrote in message
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| Hey, sorry to be kind of crashing this group since I'm not
a pilot.
|
| I bet y'all can help me though.
|
| 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?
|
| Thanks.
|

Jim Macklin wrote:
Buy a place as close as possible to a nuclear power plant,
or a presidential residence or get ear plugs. Airplanes can
fly almost anywhere.

The guy was not one of the nutjobs who want to close
all airports because they inconvenience him (except when they
actually do need transportation), but he asked politely how
to find information that might help him choose a better place
for him when he moves.

I mean, we do criticize (and rightfully so) people who move
near an airport and then complain about it, but this guy is
actually taking steps to avoid doing just that. Why not
give him some useful info?

The only thing I could think of for him to do would be to
get the relevant sectional and terminal charts and ask a
local pilot to interpret them for him. I'd be more than
happy to do that if he was moving nearby.

--Sylvain

"Sylvain" wrote in message
...
Jim Macklin wrote:
Buy a place as close as possible to a nuclear power plant,
or a presidential residence or get ear plugs. Airplanes can
fly almost anywhere.

The guy was not one of the nutjobs who want to close
all airports because they inconvenience him (except when they
actually do need transportation), but he asked politely how
to find information that might help him choose a better place
for him when he moves.

I mean, we do criticize (and rightfully so) people who move
near an airport and then complain about it, but this guy is
actually taking steps to avoid doing just that. Why not
give him some useful info?

The only thing I could think of for him to do would be to
get the relevant sectional and terminal charts and ask a
local pilot to interpret them for him. I'd be more than
happy to do that if he was moving nearby.

I agree.

(My 2 cents) When I was looking for a house in McAllen, TX (MFE), I noted
where the airport was and the houses I was looking at. My friends (and
realtor) kept asking me why I was avoiding certain neighborhoods and I
mentioned that the airlines seem to pass over those. Most realtors don't
have a clue about that.

I have a friend in Cedar Rapids (CID) that lives in the same neighborhood as
the local (head?) controller lives, thus very few planes fly over his house.

(My 2 cents) When I was looking for a house in McAllen, TX (MFE), I noted
where the airport was and the houses I was looking at. My friends (and
realtor) kept asking me why I was avoiding certain neighborhoods and I
mentioned that the airlines seem to pass over those. Most realtors don't
have a clue about that.

You *avoided* areas with airplanes? Geez, Greg, what's up with that?

;-)

Personally, I love having our house adjacent to the 3-mile final
approach path to our main calm-wind runway here in Iowa City.
(Admittedly we don't get a lot of departures east of town, which
largely saves us from the noise.)

That's another good thing for the original poster to check. Make sure
he's on the approach side of town in relation to the most commonly-used
runway. Planes passing over at low-power settings are not bothersome.

--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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You *avoided* areas with airplanes? Geez, Greg, what's up with that?

;-)

The GA I didn't care about, it was the airline traffic that flew into MFE
that I didn't want to be too near.

I now live on 1.5 mile final to 13 here in Fairmont. I've thought about
complaining to the city about the local airplane noise -- not enough of it!

-Greg B.

Jay Honeck wrote:

That's another good thing for the original poster to check. Make sure
he's on the approach side of town in relation to the most commonly-used
runway. Planes passing over at low-power settings are not bothersome.

that's very true; I live right under the short final (less than 2nm)
of one of the 32 runways of Moffett Federal Airfield; for one thing
there is not much traffic, but interesting a/c land there, from AF1 or
2, a huge Antonov, F18s, C130s, various helicopters, etc.,
really cool :-), but in the last two years that I have lived here, I
saw only one aircraft (a C130) take off from 14 (and I reckon it was
part of whatever training thing they were doing) right over my house;
it is really no bother at all; when I work at home, I keep my VHF on
the tower frequency in case I miss something :-) (my cat however,
is scared silly by the F18s, other aircraft are ok, regardless of
size or noise levels...)

--Sylvain