I don't want to buy a house under a flight path...how do I make sure?
My parents are looking at buying a home in Spokane, Washington. Currently, they live in a home that is under the FedEx flight path in Memphis and they hate it! They didn't realize when they bought the house and they don't want to end up in the same sort of situation again. How can I be sure certain neighborhoods are not under the flight plan of the airport? Are there maps? I can't find any. My parents are looking at buying a home in Spokane, Washington. Currently, they live in a home that is under the FedEx flight path in Memphis and they hate it! They didn't realize when they bought the house and they don't want to end up in the same sort of situation again. How can I be sure certain neighborhoods are not under the flight plan of the airport? Are there maps? Do you know which neighborhoods in Spokane are under flight paths? Browne's Addition, for instance.
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Ask the people who already live in the neighborhood.
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http://skyvector.com/ is the solution for you i think. but it wont be too easy to understand. best chance is to ask people living there.
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Hang out in the neighborhood and look up in the sky or ask someone who lives there. You could always look up the approach/arrival charts for whatever airport you're worried about and map it out to see if it goes over the house. Keep in mind though that those kinds of things tend to change over the years, so if you live close enough to an airport, the chance is always there that the planes will fly overhead. If you really don't want to hear airplanes, then don't buy a house anywhere near an airport.
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Move to a remote area that has no airports within 500 miles, and not a significant population that might cause an airport to be built within their lifetime. Don't know about FedEx, but UPS lands a plane every 30 second weekday nights at Louisville. Flight paths can change at any time. Flight patterns around local cities is about all you can have your real estate agent check.
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Spend a day there. Listen. You could get the charts for the area, and ask about military training that may happen in the area too.
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You need to look at a flight chart of your area to see if any airways exist above your area. Go to skyvector.com and click on the chart that is in your area. Then, you'll notice a series of circles with tik marks, which are called VORs. These VORs have airways coming put of them, shown as light blue lines and their names start with a "V". Jets and airlines only fly on those designated airways. As long as none of those airways are above the location of the house, you won't get any jets flying above, except if you are in the immediate vicinity of a major airport.
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Actual flight paths can change in an instant. Sometimes planes have to choose a different route due to weather or other reasons. Also, I don't think that you are looking to be clear of the flight path of airplanes, but rather away from the approach/departure path. You probably don't want the noise coming from planes overhead. My suggestion is to simply find a home away from an airport. As long as a plane is cruising you're not going to be annoyed by its flight path because its too high to be a nuissance (especially commercial jets which fly pretty high). However, when they are low (during approach and takeoff) you can hear them quite clearly. As long as you keep away from an airport you should be able to avoid any unwanted noise from aircraft
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go to flightaware.com and enter the nearest airport you are concerned about and watch where the airplanes fly. Check it out a few times a day for a few weeks to see where you should avoid. There is no way to guarantee that you won't have an airplane flying overhead. I don't live anywhere near an airport but I heard an f-16 flying over my house at 7 this morning. No reason for it, and it doesn't happen often, but it is going to happen no matter where you live.
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Simple, ask the Realtor, they have to (by law) disclose the fact. They have the means to find out if they do not have personal knowledge. Or you could go to the courthouse and look at the tax maps that show where the airport is. Stay away 30 miles and you will not have to suffer that great sound of FREEDOM
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One simple quick check is to view the airport on google maps and see how the runways are oriented. The loudest noise will be along the centerlines of the runways in either direction (depending on wind on any given day) and extending out about 3 miles or so. If you are in those zones, you will definitely have noise. Bear in mind that new runways could be constructed in the future. Being outside of these zones does not guarantee silence, but it should be noticeably less. Get outside of 10 miles and you would have to be rather sensitive to be bothered there. It also makes sense to check the IFR departure plates, especially when there are parallel runways because they don't always depart straight.
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Hang out on the street in front of the house for 20 mintues. If no planes fly over then you are fine.
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If you don't like plane noise don't move close to Fairchild AFB haha. Like other people said, check out websites like flight aware. Or look at google maps and draw a straight line extending 4 or 5 miles from the runways - that is most likely where the worst of the plane noise will be. On the good side, most airports won't have as much nighttime and early morning noise as Memphis.
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Do an overnight stake out
