The FAA is introducing a new system this fall that could affect the way residents experience noise coming from San Antonio International Airport.Officials have spent millions of dollars modifying almost 1,600 homes and apartments on the North Side to temper the roar of aircraft arrivals and takeoffs at San Antonio International Airport.
To address the impact of air traffic growth and improve safety, the FAA plans to incorporate the use of global positioning system technology to move aircraft more efficiently in and out of the airspace surrounding the San Antonio International Airport. , the system when it’s integrated will mean some flight corridors are narrowed from as much as four miles wide to one mile.
Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. The dozens of noise monitoring terminals already in place throughout neighborhoods surrounding the airport allow the team tasked with managing the noise program to integrate flight traffic control data with actual noise levels and respond to residents’ questions and complaints. Since the first airport noise study was conducted in 1990, the city has spent $135 million to provide residential acoustical treatment to 1,582 homes, condos and apartments within the noise exposure map zone, Heiss said.
The map shows noise “contours” roughly surrounding the runways that are created using an FAA computer modeling program. The program takes into account a year’s worth of data on how often the runways are used, the types of aircraft and the number of arrivals and departures. One of the main reasons for that is changes in aircraft design, which has made them lighter overall.