[Scan-DC] flight paths

[Andrew Leyden]

  I can personally attest to this.  This morning about 7:20 we had the 
loudest jet I've ever heard take off from National heading toward the 
North.  It really sounded like it was a few hundred feet over my 
house in Georgetown and I can't imagine anyone in this neighborhood 
sleeping through it.  I actually thought the CAP had come down to 
escort a helicopter or something.  Absolutely unreal.

Here's the Post article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5708-2002Jan31.html


>  In response to a posting about a week ago about someone who
>spotted an aircraft that appeared to be flying over restricted
>space, something that the reporter had never before witnessed, I
>mentioned that since 09/11 I had noted that aircraft approaching or
>departing local airports have apparently dispensed with the normal
>flight paths.
>
>
>   The Washington Post today, Friday, verifies this.  The metro
>section carries an article that indicates that the flight paths
>worked out over many, many years of coordination between all parties
>involved have apparently been voided, with aircraft now allowed to
>go now just about anywhere they want and by any route desired, and
>without much, if any consideration for any factor other than what is
>worked out between the carrier and the controllers for their
>convenience.

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