Category Archives: Noise Pollution

Guest Commentary: Now is your time to comment as FAA evaluates jet noise standards and mitigation

“Dispersing jet noise and particle emissions is an acknowledged antidote to concentration and is defined as “the process of introducing track variability by changing aircraft lateral position enough to spread out repetitive and intrusive noise events experienced by people living under highly concentrated flight paths” (UC Davis Aviation Noise and Emissions Symposium, February 2021).” https://www.lajollalight.com/news/opinion/story/2023-05-15/guest-commentary-now-is-your-time-to-comment-as-faa-evaluates-jet-noise-standards-and-mitigation

Quiet skies: Universities to research way to reduce aviation noise

FAA PRESS RELEASE  Highlights… Noise and Advance Air Mobility Aircraft, Drones and Rotorcraft Develop noise models for different types of Advanced Air Mobility vehicles:$315,000 to Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Develop acoustic modeling for Urban Air Mobility vehicles with low noise operations:$280,000 to Pennsylvania State University. Evaluate the noise exposure that could result from large numbersContinue reading “Quiet skies: Universities to research way to reduce aviation noise”

LA residents sue FAA over changed flight paths out of Burbank and Van Nuys airports

“We live in a home that we worked our entire lives for, and one day we woke up and were in a war zone in terms of the noise and the pollution and the chaos,” said Save Our Skies LA member and Sherman Oaks resident Chloe King. “I’m a writer who works at home andContinue reading “LA residents sue FAA over changed flight paths out of Burbank and Van Nuys airports”

FAA study finds that most Americans are ‘highly annoyed’ by aircraft noise

From Fox news… “In a report published last month, the Neighborhood Environmental Survey (NES), conducted by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), found that nearly two-thirds of people polled were “highly annoyed” by aviation noise — even more than road traffic or noise from their neighbors. … Compared with prior studies, the national curve showed “substantially more people highlyContinue reading “FAA study finds that most Americans are ‘highly annoyed’ by aircraft noise”

FAA study finds noise from airplanes, helicopters far more annoying than other sources

From The Washington Post… “The first Federal Aviation Administration noise survey in nearly 30 years found more people are bothered by aircraft noise than before.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/airplane-noise-study/2021/03/26/533a0f5e-8c0e-11eb-a6bd-0eb91c03305a_story.html

Another New Airline Arrives at Hawthorne – FLOAT

Conducting practice flights right now, FLOAT’s commercial airline service says it will start in January 2020. Another commercial airline is landing at Hawthorne on a regular basis – FLOAT Fly Over All the Traffic.  The big planes are not as loud as the Surf Air turbo-prop PC-12s, but still big, noisy airplanes. And yet anotherContinue reading “Another New Airline Arrives at Hawthorne – FLOAT”

Living Near the Airport Means You’ll Probably Wake up More in the Middle of the Night

“Noise is the silent killer in the sense that it’s really a cumulative effect,” says Mathias Basner, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. “If you expose yourself to high levels of noise, that won’t kill you. Our bodies are pretty amazing; we can tolerate a lot of things, especially with aContinue reading “Living Near the Airport Means You’ll Probably Wake up More in the Middle of the Night”