Flight Tracking System Monitors Aircraft Noise

Spanish airport operator AENA has launched an interactive Webtrak service that implements Bruel and Kjaer's 7804 Noise and Flight Tracking System. The Webtrak service allows local residents around the Barajas airport in Madrid to raise direct alerts about aircraft noise disturbance. Webtrak is a software tool that displays live flight and noise data from 27 noise-monitoring terminals located around Madrid-Barajas airport.

It's available for public use via the airport's website and allows users to lodge complaints about individual flights. By utilising the same data that the airport has on its Noise and Flight Tracking System - Sirma - Webtrak helps the airport to engage with local communities over aircraft noise. Madrid is the 46th airport to launch Webtrak and the first to implement Bruel and Kjaer's 7804 Noise and Flight Tracking System. This Flight Tracking Software enables the airport's noise-monitoring system to correlate aircraft movements with noise events - all of which is recorded via the noise-monitoring terminals - and track any violations by aircraft or airlines.

The 7804 software also allows the user to analyse the recorded noise data in various ways, such as making a comparative study between two different airlines using similar aircrafts, in the same airport. As it is also part of the AENA's Environmental Action Plan to reduce CO2 emissions and noise generated by operations at its airports throughout Spain, the company expects to roll out similar services to other Spanish airports in the future.

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