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18 February, 2021Casper Airport Solutions, Inc. is happy to announce that Dallas Fort Worth Airport International Airport (DFW) has added the Noise Lab community engagement application to its growing suite of solutions.
Dallas Fort Worth Airport International Airport (DFW) is very forthcoming in communicating with their local communities. They proactively organize meetings with local communities and invite groups to visit their offices to promote understanding and engagement regarding air traffic patterns, runway use and noise effects.
To increase the level of communication and transparency, they have chosen to implement Casper’s Noise Lab, as a web-based community noise portal. Casper Noise Lab allows DFW to easily publish relevant noise and flight information, generate automatic reports and statistics as well as allow residents to perform analysis of their local noise situation.
Casper teamed with the DFW Environmental Affairs Department (EAD) to create a user-friendly and informative website (https://dfw.noiselab.casper.aero/) that allows residents to know what is going on and educate themselves about aircraft noise issues specific to DFW Airport. Through the built-in CMS, all content can be added and maintained by the DFW EAD staff. The “Runway Use” module always shows the actual runway use and the “News” module allows EAD staff to publish news items and maintain a calendar with planned actions.
Residents can learn more about current and future airfield projects that could temporarily impact flight paths and traffic volumes over their neighborhood in the “News” section. Also, residents can view automatically generated real-time reports of flight activity, runway usage, and see flight track heat maps for both current and historical periods.
A key element of the DFW Noise Lab website is the link to the “Live Flight Tracker” webpage (https://flighttracker.casper.aero/dfw/). Casper Flight Tracker is a community engagement tool that allows users to view near real-time flight activity over the greater Dallas/Fort Worth area. The tool also displays static flight tracks for the specific date/time queried. Flight Tracker allows the users to conduct a Point of Closest Approach (PCA) analysis to see how close a particular airplane flew to their home.