Constant Plane Noise This Morning

[amy-s1.livejournal.com]

Let me say this first before you call me a whiner - watch the planes on this map for this morning of Friday 12/11: http://www4.passur.com/bos.html

You can replay any point in time with the menu bar at the top, you can even speed it up to 10X. Or you can watch "live" with a 10 minute delay.

Now, if those green planes dont go right over where you live, dont call the rest of us whiners. If they do go right over you, you know what I am talking about. My 5 month old daughter is constantly woken up by these planes and they can rattle the house.

Watch the flow of the planes coming off of runway 33L (the long one that points straight at Chelsea). The vast majority of them bank left and come straight over Davis Square almost every time. How about a little distribution over Harvard Sq, West Cambridge, etc?? Not to mention winds this morning are from the W/SW, not the Northwest.

Now, lets log complaints here: http://www.massport.com/logan/airpo_noise_compl.html

Comments

[spatch]

The thirty-minute stretch between 7:00 and 7:30 am shows a heck of a lot of takeoffs curving over Davis. It's quite a number for a morning, and a much better concrete display of data than "I heard like three go by or something and it was REALLY LOUD."

That said, didja really have to go on the defensive that much? The link and the display could've stood on their own without any of that qualification. The disclaimers all over are just inviting snark.

[amy-s1.livejournal.com]

Ok good point. But every time this issue gets posted, the poster gets called a whiner :-)

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I think the responses when this issue is brought up justify the disclaimers, and some of the obnoxious comments already posted make the point, too. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have been any better without 'em.

I don't find that map useful, though, since I can't figure out how to zoom in on the neighborhood, and the scale of the airplanes is too big for street granularity as it is.

[amy-s1.livejournal.com]

If you zoom the map to a 10 mile radius, here is how to find Davis Square: The "2A" icon is right over Porter Square, and above that the two horizonal lines are Highland Ave and Broadway. Follow Highland to the left and the 5 road intersection is Davis.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

I think you may have misunderstood me. I know where Davis Square is, but since the plane is about a mile across, it's still not useful in terms of figuring out who is really affected. Some parts of Davis are much louder than others.

[amy-s1.livejournal.com]

Follow the green line behind the plane, thats the true radar path.