TECHNICAL BACKGROUND: INTERIM CRITERIA FOR PLANNING ROTARY-WING AIRCRAFT TRAFFIC PATTERNS, AND SITING NOISE-SENSITIVE LAND USES

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 technique 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)

• Supplemental Notes:
  • See also AD-A031 450.
• Corporate Authors:

  Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory

  P.O. Box 4005
  Champaign, IL  United States  61820
• Authors:
  • Schomer, P D
  • Homans, B L
• Publication Date: 1976-9

Media Info

• Pagination: 17 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air traffic control; Aircraft noise; City planning; Flight paths; Helicopters; Land use; Landing fields; Planning; Rotary wing aircraft; Sound level; Systems analysis; Traffic estimation; Urban areas; Vehicle range
• Uncontrolled Terms: Noise contours; Patterns
• Old TRIS Terms: Air corridors; Air traffic control system analysis; Range distance; Traffic forecasts
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Freight Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00147239
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: CERL-IR-N-9 Intrm Rpt.
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 16 1977 12:00AM