I have reasons to suspect that the beautiful banking shots off 1R at dulles will soon be going the way of the dodo. I haven't seen the proposed new instrument departures myself, but I heard from a very credible source that in the next 4-6 months Dulles will be switching over to RNAV departures (and arrivals) for all their runways. When this happened in Atlanta a few years back no more were pilots requested to make turns at their discretion crossing the middle marker on departure. Instead now they have an RNAV fix about 5 miles off the departure end of the runway where they begin their turns off runway heading toward the first departure fix. If something similar happens at Dulles, 1R departures will probably be well out over Old Ox Road before they start the 11 degree turn to 360 heading.
Just something to consider if you're like me and love getting photos of the afternoon euro departures banking off 1R.
Disclaimer: this is only speculation on my part with regards to the new procedures coming to IAD. For all I know the new procedure could have them turning at 400 AGL.
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