Originally Posted by
TGarza
Does DCA have a hard curfew for flights or a suggested curfew? DAL has a suggested curfew which hasn’t been approved by the FAA.
Not really. It has a unique "
DCA Nighttime Noise Rule" between the hours of 10p and 7a, but it's not even a suggested curfew. I'm not entirely clear on how they measure it, but they do (at least in theory) issue fines to aircraft operators that exceed the noise limit in those hours.