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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. |
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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 |
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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 oups.com... | 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. | |
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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 |
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On 28 Oct 2006 20:02:01 -0700, "Bejeeber"
wrote in .com: 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? You'll find aviation charts he http://skyvector.com/ You can view flight tracks he http://atcmonitor.com/ http://atcmonitor.com/atlanta/screen.html |
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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 (!!!). |
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"Bejeeber" wrote in message
oups.com... [...] 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 |
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"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. |
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Peter Duniho wrote:
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. however, there are a number of things that a local pilot might help identify; for instance, the usual/commonly used reporting points when coming in to land at the local fields, the 'practice areas' used by the local clubs/FBOs, the local places used to practice aerobatics, the usual sight seeing locations, the route the locals like to follow for easy navigation, or because it avoids some busy airspace, or because there is a really cool onfield restaurant, etc. I mean, it's not 100% reliable of course, but it could be a start. --Sylvain |
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There is a job title, real estate agent... Airplanes are a
fact of life. Just as waterfowl migrate, airplanes migrate. Some things are daily and some are seasonal, like football season near a college town. He has the mistaken I'd that airplanes follow routes and they do to an extant near terminal areas, particularly Class B airspace. "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. | | --Sylvain | | |
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