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Noise working group recommends pausing Part 150 study; airport staff to pursue new approaches and departure changes
Summary
The airport’s noise working group recommended postponing a formal FAA Part 150 noise study and instead procuring a consultant to design airport-specific instrument approaches and modified departures aimed at reducing overflight of residential areas. Staff will work with air traffic control and airlines to implement quick-turn departure changes.
Airport staff updated the commission on the noise working group’s progress and the group’s unanimous recommendation to postpone the formal FAA Part 150 noise study and pursue an alternative path: contracting a consultant to design and maintain tailored instrument approaches and to examine departure procedures that could reduce overflight of neighborhoods.
Director Haster summarized the group’s work: four meetings that included community representatives, pilots, airline and tenant stakeholders, and commission members. The group reviewed how current instrument departures and arrivals route…
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