I live outside the metro area, west and south of DC, and have heard a lot more planes for the past month or so. Last night and this morning, I've been up since about 7 am edt, it's been a constant stream of planes flying overhead.
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I used to live almost next door to you. Most likely what you are hearing is commercial traffic. Sometimes Dulles changes their patterns based on wind which is likely rerouting over your head.
You can watch air traffic here. Click the U to turn off civilian and view only MIL: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae222c
Note the P8 circling right over the area where the Ever Given is beached.
I know there are commercial flights mostly out of Manassas but this is new. It's now nearly 11 pm and I'm still hearing numerous planes overhead. This is very unusual. I'm not that close to DC. Thanks to everyone and thanks, blacksmith21, for the link.
Maybe they're just flying lower because of the weather but this is a LOT more planes than we would normally hear.
Someone posted a day or two ago about AirForce and Navy special opperations flying over DC. Not sure if its related but your not the only one hearing it in that area.
I missed that post. Thanks, maybe this explains it they're flying to DC. I'm not that close to DC.
We were in DC a couple of weekends ago for the Cherry Blossom Festival. We did notice several helicopters with military members in them constantly making runs over the national mall area.They were not park police helicopters either. I'll go back through our pictures to see if we have any of the helicopters. I thought it was odd. We've been stationed around DC 3 times and used to go downtown every weekend. I never noticed helicopter activity like this before.
I am SE of DC. Been hearing a lot but mostly helicopters.
There's currently a E3TF, a P8 and several smaller aircraft in and around the Chesapeake Bay area. The P8 and a SW4 Fairchild running search patterns over the bay.
The container ship is still stuck in the Bay and it's being watched like the one in the Suez was. They are going to start removing containers to lighten it's load it seems. It's all fishy enough to keep all the eyeballs they can on it.
I agree.
I'm nowhere near the Bay.
Perhaps TX Gov Abbott is using planes instead of buses to send the illegals to DC.
Evergreen's Ever Forward has been stuck on bottom in Chesapeake Bay for about 3-4 weeks now, so maybe they are flying in case of a Club-K (sky) event?