Teterboro Airport (TEB) Noise Reduction Scenarios
Bergen County, New Jersey
Wyle completed a preliminary noise assessment for Teterboro Airport (TEB) to provide the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey with an estimate of the noise reduction achievable by eliminating FAR Part 36 noise Stage 1, Stage 2 and marginal Stage 3 business jet aircraft operations.
Due to TEB’s close proximity to Newark Airport (EWR), aircraft departing TEB generally follow a procedure that involves a “flattened” climb rate to remain below EWR’s traffic. Therefore, the standard flight profiles and thrust used in the FAA’s Integrated Noise Model (INM) had to be manually adjusted to reflect appropriate changes in aircraft altitudes, aircraft power settings, aircraft flap settings, and aircraft landing gear positions on these modified departure tracks. Pilot input and published noise abatement procedures were used to construct these nonstandard flight profiles.
After CATER radar data analysis, modified flight profiles were created for the Lear 25, Lear 35, Gulfstream 2, Gulfstream 4, Cessna Citation 3, Cessna Citation 4, and Challenger 600 aircraft.
The INM was used to develop noise exposure maps around TEB for four scenarios:
- Original Year 2000 fleet mix and standard INM aircraft departure flight profiles.
- Original Year 2000 fleet mix, but using the modified aircraft flight profiles. In the third case,
- Stage 1 aircraft (the most noisy) were replaced with similar Stage 3 aircraft using the modified aircraft flight profiles.
- Modernized fleet incorporating only Stage 3 aircraft, using the modified aircraft flight profiles.