Technical Background: Interim Criteria for Planning Rotary-Wing Aircraft Traffic Patterns, and Siting Noise-Sensitive Land uses.

Abstract

This report presents interim criteria for locating rotary-wing aircraft traffic patterns and ingress and egress corridors into an airfield/heliport to avoid conflict with noise-sensitive land uses, and provides criteria for planners to site noise-sensitive land uses with respect to the established airfield/heliport and established flight corridors. These interim criteria are required because the exact Air Force techinique for predicting fixed-wing aircraft noise cannot currently be used due to the upredictability of helicopter flight patterns; these criteria are the basis for interim procedures established in a companion report, User Manual: Interim Procedure for Planning Rotary-Wing Aircraft Traffic Patterns and Siting Noise-Sensitive Land Uses (Construction Engineering Research Laboratory Interim Report N-10, 1976). (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA031449

Entities

People

  • B. L. Homans
  • P. D. Schomer

Organizations

  • Construction Engineering Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircraft Noise
  • Aircrafts
  • Army Facilities
  • Construction
  • Department Of Defense
  • Energy
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Environmental Protection
  • Fixed Wing Aircraft
  • Flight Paths
  • Helicopters
  • Military Facilities
  • National Security
  • Rotary Wing Aircraft

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Pavement Materials Engineering.
  • Wetland-Land-Environmental Management.