AICA, Studio City For Quiet Skies, and UproarLA’s Federal Register Comment on NASA’s test on human response to Advanced Aviation Mobility (AAM) vehicle noise – April 26, 2024
Date: April 26, 2024
Description: AICA, Studio City For Quiet Skies, and UproarLA jointly submitted a public comment in the Federal Register regarding NASA’s planned test. Our overarching input is for NASA to design, execute, and derive findings from the Varied AAM Noise and Geographic Area Response Difference (VANGARD) test to accurately reflect how impacted communities experience noise. The current FAA noise policy and metrics based on government agency and non-government agency research do not.
2. Media Coverage: “Communities Say NASA AAM Annoyance Test Must Accurately Reflect Impact,” Airport Noise Report (ANR)
May 31, 2024 – The ANR newsletter features an article on the AICA, Studio City for Quiet Skies, and UproarLA’s public comment (Comment ID# NASA_FRDOC_0001-0562) in the Federal Register regarding NASA’s Request for Comments on Remotely Administered Psychoacoustic Test For Advanced Air Mobility Noise Human Response, Docket ID NO. NASA_FRDOC_0001-0545. Airport Noise Report (ANR) vol. 36, no.17 (May 31, 2024 ). Over 300 individuals and groups endorsed the AICA, Studio City for Quiet Skies, and UproarLA comment out of the 328 total submitted comments to the Federal Register.
1. Public Comment: AICA, Studio City for Quiet Skies, and UproarLA’s joint Federal Register Comment on NASA’s test on human response to Advanced Aviation Mobility (AAM)/Urban Air Mobility (UAM) vehicle noise
On April 26, 2024 three community groups submitted a joint public comment in the Federal Register regarding NASA’s Request for Comments on Information Collection: Remotely Administered Psychoacoustic Test for Advanced Air Mobility Noise Human Response; Docket ID: NASA_FRDOC_0001-0545. Our overarching input is for NASA to design, execute, and derive findings from the Varied AAM Noise and Geographic Area Response Difference (VANGARD) test to accurately reflect how impacted communities experience noise.
The new Advanced Air Mobility (AAM)/Urban Air Mobility (UAM) technologies are expected to have negative impacts from the number and type of aircraft such as: the loudness (including the whirring of the multiple rotors), visual pollution, the sheer frequency of noise events, the hovering, the low altitude of overflight, the time of day (noise in the early AM and late PM hours has greater impact), privacy concerns, threat to wildlife and their habitat, and the safety risk associated with more and different types of aircraft overhead. It is our hope that NASA will do its utmost to represent the lived experience of potentially impacted communities in the design, execution, and derived findings of the VANGARD test.
Key Related Resources
- DOT’s request for Information on Advanced Air Mobility, Docket ID No. DOT-OST-2023-0079
- AICA’s Federal Register Comment on Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), Comment ID No. Comment ID No. DOT-OST-2023- 0079-0104
- Studio City For Quiet Skies Federal Register Comment on Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), Comment ID No. DOT-OST-2023-0079-0021