Helicopter Noise Information for Airports and Communities (2016) / Chapter Skim
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8 ANNOYANCE The adverse impact of aircraft noise is usually expressed in terms of annoyance (that is, a subjective response to a particular sound)
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9 FAA's review of the technical literature on the annoyance of helicopter noise in its Nonmilitary Helicopter Urban Noise Study (FAA 2004) cites eight (mostly laboratory)
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10 times as great as the rate of notice of fixed-wing aircraft noise." They speculate that the greater rate of notice of helicopter noise was due to the "distinct sound character" of rotary-wing aircraft. Because the participants were exposed to notably fewer helicopter than fixed-wing overflights, it is also possible that they were less habituated to helicopter noise than to fixed-wing aircraft noise.
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11 number of complaints and total number of complainers. A recent report identifies interesting patterns in complaints that appear to be common to all airports and that is that for nonprolific complainers there is a fixed ratio of the number of people who complain once, versus twice, three times, etc.
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