Noise at SMO

[AlabamaMan!!]

Last time I went in there to pick up some pax it was on Veteran's Day. Those douchebags took the day off, and the tower guy was cool about letting us know. I think he was letting everyone know. We made a slow climb with the flaps and gear hanging and t.o power until the shore.........never heard about it. Hope we pissed off some biatch on his back porch.

 

[400A]

You need to stop the whining coming from the other side of the cockpit...

that alone would cut the noise in half.

Tell him I said Hi and to start returning my calls.

LOL,,,, I will tell him. We were taxiing when you called.

Did you change birds?

 

[LAZYB]

Used to do this all the time when I flew for a DOD

operation in the "valley". If you felt the need, you told the noise gods you would be at a "medium weight, light weight, etc..." and maybe some other aspect of your modified "flight test" to improve community relations...

There's also a way to "cheat" the system. You can ask for a "noise check", or some similar phrase(hopefully somebody will chime in with the EXACT proper phraesology) and if you happen to bust it they won't fine you, just call it a "test" of their noise monitor system. They used to do this, and at my company management recommends that we request this, but I never do because I always come in 10db or more below the limit(and because I forget most of the time).

 

[satpak77]

Then you file with another tail number.

out of curiousity, will filing with another tail number "beat" the Mode S data feed to ATC?

I thought it was hardwired or programmed with your tail number?

 

[400A]

out of curiousity, will filing with another tail number "beat" the Mode S data feed to ATC?

I thought it was hardwired or programmed with your tail number?

It Is.

 

[501261]

out of curiousity, will filing with another tail number "beat" the Mode S data feed to ATC?

I thought it was hardwired or programmed with your tail number?

Yup, if you have a MODE S your tail number is in the system.

Back to SMO and using a false tail number; the biggest problem with that is in order to takeoff from SMO, you will end up taxiing about 5 feet from the tower and noise police office. Granted mistakes happen, but in this day and age, I certainly wouldn't try and pull a stunt like that.

Incidentally, just because you have an assigned mode S code, doesn't necessarily mean the FAA is "tracking" you. You still have to have a Mode S transponder, having a code and actually having the Mode S are 2 different things.

 

[Metro752]

If I moved to Santa Monice, and got a city job, it would be the noise police watchman, and I would never ring the bell

 

[400A]

Thanks for all the info yall.

We did good. We left yesterday and did the following.

MGTOW, Flaps 10, initial climb at V2 + 10 till the end of the runway.

Then N1 to 70% with falps 10, lowerd the nose to only climb 4-500ft-min till the shore line.

Called back and the reading was an 84db with 95db being max.

Thanks again,

400A