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Old 01-15-2013, 04:04 AM
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Colin Allen
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Default RE: Does your club noise test turbine jets?

Hi... we definitely have DB meters and are doing different types of measurements. The committee is generally supportive of jet operations, and have asked Jan and me to come up with a recommendation for noise testing procedures for jets. As with any club dealing with noise issues, there is a segment of mainly old timers who fly little planes who knee jerk cry "ban jets" at the first sign of noise issues. Fortunately (thus far) they have got nowhere with that. 

Nonetheless we want to be armed with knowledge of best practices throughout the world. There have been a lot of great contributions already to this thread. Your experiences at Sale are good for us to hear.