When I posted this I was not paying attention.
I'm posting here cause I went out to may car and saw 4 planes in the sky.
Now I have a small, private airport like 3 miles from me and then I have FLL (Ft. Lauderdale) airport about 10 miles from me.
So there are way more planes for me to observe at any given minute than I was talking about in 2024. Also I got my Distance from FLL way wrong back then. I now want to beat this record of 4 at once and I'm hoping to spot 5 tomorrow.
That's why I thought it was an odd question. I'm in the flight path of both Logan and JFK. Plus Portsmouth airport and Pease AFB is a few minutes from me. And there are several regional airports where smaller planes come and go.
So there's probably a plane flying over every 10 minutes. The military cargo planes are huge, low, and loud. The prop planes are low and loud too. Plus, we have medivac helicopters flying over.
But your question referred to seeing planes. And I'm simply not outside looking into the sky much. Plus, most of the planes are obscured by clouds or trees.