Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Noise and Bangkok Airport

With the opening of a new airport in Bangkok the issue of airport noise is of great interest to Bangkok's noise beleaguered inhabitants. Quiet Bangkokian has stumbled across a potential mine of information on this topic, the website of Boeing Corporation which may be accessed among the links to be found in the right hand column of this blog. This precious website gives noise data on airports throughout the world.
The only problem is that this invaluable database contains little information on Bangkok airport. The following extract is indicative of the content:

Noise Monitoring System - NONE

Flight Track Monitoring System - NONE

Noise Level Limits - NONE

Well, what did we expect? It seems that Thailand has not set any limits to airport noise or made any investment for its limitation. For that matter, the governments of Malaysia, Singapore, and Manila are equally neglectful of the sensitivity of their citizens to aircraft noise!
To dream of what might be, compare the complex system of noise limitation at Charles de Gaulle airport!