What is the Airport doing to address aircraft noise and noise complaints?
Staff continues to work with pilots and flight instructors to communicate the need to apply quiet flying techniques and follow local noise abatement procedures. Staff also disseminates noise abatement procedures and requests adherence to the “Voluntary Restraint from Night Flying Period” via monthly tenant newsletters, pilot and instructor meetings, pilot flight planning web sites and guides, letters to pilots, and direct calls to pilots based on noise complaints. After approval by the Airport Advisory Commission, staff installed new noise abatement signs in September 2002. The new signs graphically depict noise sensitive areas to ease pilot interpretation. The replacement of the old noise abatement signs was also a recommendation made in the “Livermore Municipal Airport Altitude and Noise Study” initiated by the City of Pleasanton and completed in May 2003. Airport staff receive and log aircraft noise complaints. Anyone calling to file a noise complaint should state their name and add
