Aviation Noise & Emissions Symposium (ANE) 2023: Presentations by Cindy L. Christiansen and Darlene Yaplee – May 2023
Date: May 2, 2023
Event: Aviation Noise & Emissions (ANE) Symposium 2023
Description: Presentations by AICA co-founders on “Is It Time to Retire a 30-Year-Old Aviation Single Noise Metric (DNL)?” and “FAA Community Engagement Scorecard – Is the FAA’s Community Engagement Improving?
1. FAA Community Engagement Scorecard – Is the FAA’s Community Engagement Improving? by Darlene Yaplee
Over the last few years, the FAA has made efforts to improve its community engagement strategy by implementing tools and programs to address community engagement concerns. The presentation highlights the FAA Community Engagement Scorecard (FAACES) project by sharing a summation of responses from 47 community groups on their experience with FAA community engagement for local and national topics in 2020, 2021, and 2022 compared to pre-2020.
1.A. Presentation Recording
1.B. Slide Deck
2. Is It Time to Retire a 30-Year-Old Aviation Single Noise Metric? by Dr. Cindy L. Christiansen
The presentation considers elements needed to bring the FAA noise policy into the 21st Century. The FAA continues to use a 30-year old FICON-determined DNL65 single noise metric despite the industry’s 21st Century aircraft and FAA’s NextGen navigation. The presentation centers on the Airport Safety and Noise Act of 1979 (ASNA) that requires “a single system of measuring noise” which has a “highly reliable relationship between projected noise exposure and surveyed reactions of people to noise…”. It identifies two distinct aviation noise environments with different characteristics and the supporting reasons why a system of measuring noise is needed.