Plane over Potomac by DC Digital Photography
Ever had a fantasy of being an air traffic controller? Ever wanted to complain about a plane flying too loudly over your house? If you said yes to either of those questions, there’s a perfect website for you: Airscene.com.
Airscene is a system that tracks planes coming into and going out of airports. The link above is the one set up for Reagan National Airport. On top of merely tracking the progress of the planes, the system also uses about a dozen sound monitoring stations across the area to monitor how loud the planes are.
Here’s what it looks like:
This map indicates that at 1:19 pm on December 2nd, American flight 2033 from Boston (which is an A319 plane) was approaching for a landing at about 2300 feet above Georgetown. Continue reading
The Georgetown Metropolitan 
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