The final recommendations stemming from a noise study at Naples Municipal Airport (KAPF) in Florida have been approved by the airport’s board of commissioners and will be submitted to the FAA for review.
The Part 150 Noise Study, which began in 2019 and involved more than 100 public meetings and presentations, resulted in nearly 100 initial recommendations from the community, according to airport officials.
Those were winnowed down to the ones that will be submitted to the FAA for a 180-day review period, after which the airport can begin the process of implementing the approved measures, officials explained.
Those include:
- Implement procedures to increase glide slope to all runway ends
- Modify the 2,000-foot hold down (commonly referred to as “higher-faster”)
- Promote voluntary use of National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Noise Abatement Departure Procedures
- Implement Optimized Profile Descent (OPD) procedures to all runway ends
- Route south and eastbound jet departures from Runway 23 down the bay (airport officials note there are approximately nine jet flights per day when Runway 23 is in use)
- Shift Goodlette-Frank Road Departure Corridor East and Create a “Golf Course Corridor” (approximately 10 jet flights per day when Runway 32 is in use)
- Increase use of the crosswind Runway 14/32 (approximately 22 additional days per year)
The airport’s board of commissioners also adopted a dozen additional land use and other measures to further improve noise abatement and compatible land use, including the adoption of a residential sound insulation program and supporting local government efforts to maintain compatible zoning, airport officials explained.
While this marks the end of the Part 150 Noise Study, it is not the end of the airport’s ongoing noise abatement efforts, which include improving the airport’s 98.9% voluntary curfew compliance rate, airport officials said. Over the past year curfew violations have been reduced by more than 34% and jet curfew violations have decreased by 51%.
Other noise abatement programs include:
- Hiring a global airspace and flight procedure design firm
- The installation of Noise and Operations Monitors to better measure and report on actual aircraft noise exposure through a public website
- Establishing an enhanced Fly Quiet Program
For more information: FlyNaples.com.
The normal approach glidepath angle of 3 degrees was established for good reasons. Has there been a serious safety analysis of the proposal to “Implement procedures to increase glide slope to all runway ends”?
The airport was there first , build a house knowing an airport is there then whine about the noise ? Give me the house and I’ll let them extend the runway! Bitching liberals 🤨
Just another terrible smug airport board (probably filled with non-aviation persons) that caved to people who bought a house near a busy airport then whine about jet and airplane noise. Where are the people with backbones? Also, where is the local zoning board at the city level. They approved all these residential projects over the years that are near the airport. The residents should go complain to them. And the city zoning group should pay for the house noise insulation. Also, do the residents march to the city hall demanding that all Harley-Davidson motorcycles or loud vehicles be banned throughout Naples. Let’s be fair.
what seems not to have been identified is the differential between fixed wing and rotor craft (helicopter) traffic. I lived next to Naples airport & there is no question that the rotor craft noise out-weighed the fixed wing aviation noise daily. The helicopter noise is caused because of operations at lower altitudes on the 10 mile perimeter of Naples.
The neighbors do not distinguish what type of aircraft is operating or the amount of air-noise polution is created by that differential.
Where is the recommendation not to build your house under final approaches to airports. Damn what a concept. Present.y we are using the build it then BITCH concept.
When I flew for a large Regional airline we serviced Naples from ATL. I forget the details of the procedure but we’d take off and at some altitude or during the climb out we’d reduce thrust. Our CRJs were actually quieter than many business jets. The town, or some segment of the town, seems to be very anti-aviation/ airport in my opinion. They liked the service but evidently not the flights and noise. Our airline didn’t continue serving Naples and eventually dropped the route.
“The Part 150 Noise Study, which began in 2019 and involved more than 100 public meetings and presentations” 100 public meetings? Really? Or 100 attendees? The solutions sure sound costly. Why not just give away cheap foam earplugs for the NIMBYs?
👍anyone purchasing a home near an airport will see in their disclosure report that airport noise or runway noise is a factor. Read your disclosures people, we did!