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SR-6-E (5) . . - . . t,,-E -- ~t?&?-PO?-pz- OCT 1 3 1981 AP:HED:LJS:ar Santa Monica, California Council Meeting: October 13, 1987 TO: Mayor and City council FROM: city staff SUBJECT: Recommendation to Support Resolution of the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority Recommending FAA Rulemaking to Reduce Aircraft Noise Impact on Communities INTRODUCTION This report recommends that the city Council endorse a noise abatement Resolution of the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority. The Resolution calls on the Federal Aviation Administration to consider incorporating noise abatement flight procedures into aircraft certification, flight manuals and the pilot training and certification process. It was endorsed unanimously by the Santa Monica Airport Commission. BACKGROUND The Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport (formerly Hollywood/Burbank Airport) has long experienced problems with the adverse environmental effects of aircraft noise. This airport, like Santa Monica, has taken a number of steps to reduce noise including restrictions on noisy aircraft, curfews and other measures. The adoption of the Noise Abatement Resolution for the first time calls on the Federal Aviation Administration to get ,-e, - 1 - OCT 1, 1981 . w . . involved in promoting quiet flying through flight training and individual aircraft flight procedures. Specifically, the Resolution proposes that engine and airframe manufacturers be required to determine optimum noise reduction flight profiles and publish them in the approved aircraft flight manual, the document most relied on by pilots in the operation of an aircraft. For older aircraft, this would mean amending approved aircraft flight manuals or assisting the FAA in publishing an Advisory Circular on the appropriate noise abatement flight procedures. In addition, the Resolution asks that FAA regulations governing approved flight school curriculums for all pilot certificates also include instruction in noise abatement flight procedures. These steps are consistent with the Santa Monica noise abatement program, which focuses directly on pilot skills and aircraft-specific noise abatement procedures. In implementing our program, the Airport has been informally communicating with the manufacturers. Local flight instructors also are requested to include noise abatement procedures in pilot training. The Resolution recommends that funding for these programs be sought as a necessary and proper expenditure from the noise abatement/mitigation portion of the Aviation Trust Fund. - 2 - . . . In response to public comment on the Resolution at its September meeting, the Airport Commission added the following amendment to the funding proposal: "That, research and development programs also be funded to investigate the feasibility of retrofitting older General Aviation aircraft to fly more quietly." Staff believes this amendment is important given that few new single engine aircraft are being manufactured and a large number of the older models are likely to remain in the fleet for many years. BUDGETARY/FISCAL IMPACT There is no budgetary/fiscal impact from this action. RECOMMENDATION Staff respectfully recommends that the City Council 1) state its formal support and endorsement of Resolution No. 191 of the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority and the amendment to the Resolution adopted by the Santa Monica Airport Commission; and 2) Direct staff to write letters to the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority and congressional - 3 - - - . . . . representatives, expressing the City Council's strong support for the Resolution and the Amendment as added by the Airport Commission. Prepared by: Hank Dittmar, Airport Director Linda Sullivan, Sr. Administrative Analyst CCI013/ar - 4 - . . RESOLUT!ON NO. 12l A RESOLUTION OF THE BURBANK-GLENDALE-PASADENA AIRPORT AUTHORITY TO THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION RECOMMENDING PROPOSED RULEMAKING TO REDUce COMMUNITY AIRCRAFT NOISE IMPACTS WHEREAS, aircraft noise has become one of the aost ser ious threats to airport capacity, airport access and a deregulated airline industryi WHEREAS, while technology has dramatically reduced noise at its source, it has not made aircraft generally capable of non- intrusive acceptable interruptions, and for that reason technology alone cannot be relied on to solve the aircraft noise prob1emi WHEREAS, aircraft noise problems are not exclusively related to jet aircraft, but include all types of aircraft aanufactured here and abroad, WHEREAS, though there 1s an establisbed .echani.. to certify aircraft nolae perfor.ance, there 18 DO 8tal1ar ..chant.. avallable to latora aircraft operators aDd pilot. of bow to best operate an alrcraft fro. a DOlae point of vi.., ~icb renders altport -fly quietly. and aiaUar progr_ of liaited .al.., WHERBAS. though aircraft operatora bave adopted ..rloua approaches to fliqht procedures intended to reduce aircraft nol.. OD . ay.tea-vlcJe baai., inclatiDgI 1) _pl~Dt. of Alr 1ft....... Asaociation or .ational Busin... Aircraft A88ocl.Uoll proceaare., 2) establi~Dt, in consultation with aD aircraft -.nut.ctarer, of unique procedures for a particular airport or aircraft or aerl.. of aircraft, and 3) development, ID consaltatioD with an airport proprietor, of Doia. abateaeat procedure.. the effectivene.s of tbese procedur.. ba. been li.ited b! tbeir generic natore, WBBRBAS, .ufficient iafo~t1on ie Dot Jet a.aU~e '1'_ which it caD be detemined nether there caD be ..tablilbed -for any given aircraft an opti_. Dol.. re~actloD fUpt ~ofU. wbieb is conal.tent with the Mfa operation of tJaat alrer t, WHEREAS, those parties .ost likely to be able to deteraine such optimua noi8e reduction flight profiles are the engine and airframe manufacturers, -1- . . . . WHEREAS , there 16 an obvious regulatory gap in the Fede ral Aviatlon Regulatlons in that the regulatoC"y scheme noW' in Flace does not require engIne and airframe manufactl.[ers to deteralne optimwn nOIse reduction flight profiles anc publish them in the approved aIrcraft flight manual, which is the document .ost r ell e d on by the pilot in the normal course of aircraft operations; WHEREAS, in the judgment of the Author ity reasonable and feasible methods to eliminate unnecessary decibels should be pursued by the Federal Aviation Administration to make aircraft and the airports that serve them more compatible with surrounding communities. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESCLVED that tbe Burbank-Glendale- Pasadena Airport Authority does hereby recommend to the Federal Aviation Administration that it stu~ the matters raised herein, and if it is determined that noise abatement benefits would accrue to those individuals and communities affected by aircraft noise, that the Federal Aviation Administration engage in rulemakinq as follows: 1) That, for new aircraft not yet certificated and aircraft currently in production, Federal Aviation Regulatioos parts 23 and 2S be amended to require aircraf~ aanufacture" to determine aircraft-specific noi8e abatement flight procedure. aad .ake such procedures a part of the approwed aircraft fligbt .anual, 2) !'bat, for aircraft no longer in productioa aDd If de._KJ econOllic811y worthwhile, t.he PAA require aircraft aaDufact.en to amend approved aircraft flight aanuals or with FAA a..i.~ publish ia Advisory Circular or other fora appropriate ao18e abat.ent flight procedur.., 3) Ifhat, 'ederal Aviatioa RegulatioD Part 11 be _eDdec1 ~o require tbe pilot to us. approved aircraft Doia. abatea.Dt procedures wheD and wbere sueb procedure. would reduce the _1.. i.pact o~ Individuals and caamUDitlea .urroaDdlDg aD air,port, 4) ft,at, rederal Aviation Regalation Part 141 be _ended b include ooi.. abat..eot flight procedur.. 1. approved flllbt 8chool corrical... for all pilot certlflcat:.., 5) ~hat FAA require, a. . part of bleDDial fl~ esa.iDat.lon., type ratings or original p11o~ certlflcat..,. alraen deaonatrate their knowledge of and ability to coap!y with and apply Doise abatement procedures contained in approved aircraft fligbt .anuala or other documents referencec1 above, aDd 6) ~b at, to the extent tbe propos.l. above i.po.. a financial hardship on engine and airframe manufacturers or the -2- . . . , . . . . /' fAA, fundIng for these programs be sought as a necessa ry and fraper expenditure from the nOIse abatement/mItigatIon portIon of tte AVIatIon Trust Fund. ADOPTED, this 6th day of July 1987. r0- e Commission of the Burbank lendale-pasadena Airport Autbority Attest: ~~~- 2)\------- -1 secretary -3- --- ---~-- - -- , . " . . . . . . . / ~ STATE OF CALIFORNIA } COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) I , Thomas E. Greer do her e by certlfy that the foregoing resolutlon was duly and regularly adopted by the Cornmlsslon of the Burbank-Glendale-pasadena Airport Authority at a meeting held on the 6th day of July , 1987, by the folloYing vote: AYES: Garcin, Ayers, Meseck, Beckman, Parcher, Boward, RObinson, Schwarzenbach NOES: None ABSENT: Bowman L.~~ c / Assistant Secretary , .