RE: UK Airports ignore ban on noisy jets
Having spoken to some people from the AEF, who live under the flightpath at Heathrow, I discovered that when they bought the houses, there was significantly less air traffic than now, and they didn’t forsee the increase which has happened. I’ll bet they are, well lets say not too happy about not banning these noisier aircraft.
How can you compare the noise from a 732 and a 738?
Well, there are monitoring stations around airports which record noise levels. They are certainly around LHR and there are four, I think around Leeds Bradford Airport. I’d say there’d certainly be a noise difference of 10dB, maybe as much as 20dB. It would be interesting to find out!
Of course at LHR, it isn’t the peak noise level which counts. The soundproofing grants are allocated according to a factor which depends on the amount of time an area is subjected to a certain noise level. This isn’t true at LBA, in which areas which experience 90dB or more get a soundproofing grant. Any noise of 90bD or less will not cause sleep disturbance according to the DETR. But every person is different so some will complain while most people won’t because they’d got used to the noise.
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