Health, Night flights

The Health Impacts Caused By Night Flights

11
Jun

By Eleftheria Emfietzi Sleep is a biological imperative, and a very active process that serves several vital functions. Undisturbed sleep of sufficient length is essential for daytime alertness and performance, quality of life, and health. The epidemiologic evidence that chronically disturbed or curtailed sleep is associated with negative health outcomes such as obesity, diabetes, and […]

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Night flights

Night Flight Bans in Germany

11
Jun

By Manfred Peter To support the considerations for a night flight ban at Vienna Airport and to classify such a demand in existing night flight bans / night flight restrictions, an overview of night flight bans currently in place at European airports is given below. The data for these 10 airports is taken from the […]

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Climate, Noise

Fear that noise may lose out to climate

11
Jun

There is a pervasive fear amongst noise campaigners that they are losing out to climate activists By John Stewart Of course, there are areas where their interests coincide – less car traffic on the roads; a move to rail for short distance flights – but there seems to be an increasing number of areas where […]

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Noise

Noise limits of the Brussels Region

11
Jun

Strict application of noise limits in sight Report from Bruxelles Air Libre Brussel (BALB) to the UECNA meeting  on 1 April 2017 Noise limits for aircraft flying over the Brussels Region were established in 1999 by the Brussels Region in order to protect its inhabitants. The noise limits distinguish between day and night: stricter limits […]

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Noise, UECNA

‘Less Aircraft Noise in Europe!’

11
Jun

Presentation of Dominique Lazarski at the conference Noise in Europe (slides) Look back the conference, including parallel session 1: Ideas for policy options with the speech of Dominique (15:04:47 – 15:20:57 – go to full screen to navigate) You can also view parallel session 2: Evidence of health effects of noise and parallel session 3: […]

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Noise

Future aircraft design and impact

11
Jun

A summary of the 22nd Workshop, 6 September 2018 at NLR, Amsterdam by Wouter Looman 1.      Future aircraft design Engines on top will reduce aircraft noise enormously (no reflection on wings). Nice figures about the possible decrease of dB’s in the coming twenty years, like 51 dB below stage 4 in 2035. Happily at the […]

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Fact Finding, Noise

Electric Planes Also Make a Lot of Noise

11
Jun

Electric planes could be here sooner than we think but might do little for noise By John Stewart In less than 20 years electric planes could be using our airports, although we doubt there could be electrification of large aircraft. A report (1) from the CAA (Civil Aviation Authority) in the UK suggests some short-haul […]

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Fact Finding, Noise

How aircraft noise is measured

11
Jun

Using the right metric to measure noise annoyance from aircraft is very important. Each of them measures something slightly different Introduction The way aircraft noise is measured is complex.  Metrics are ways of measuring noise.  Different metrics measure different things.  We outline the key metrics used below.  Decibels indicates how loud a noise is.  All […]

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Noise

Sound Solutions to Aircraft Noise

11
Jun

By John Stewart During my 20 years chairing HACAN, the organisation which gives a voice to residents under the Heathrow flight paths, I was always keen to look for solutions. Noise was by some distance the biggest problem residents faced. In this blog I outline 7 key measures to deal with aircraft noise. When aircraft […]

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