31L turns over the water.
I had a discussion with the JFK tower senior controller and a FAA inspector. Now this conversation took place about 2004. On 31L departures the airport would like a turn to the south as safety and altitude permit. This puts the noise pattern over the bay and not along the close in residential shore line. The departure pages used to have a request along those lines. Back in the good old days we would start a very gentle roll to the left at fifty to one hundred feet. Maybe fifteen to twenty degrees of bank to a southerly heading.
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