Programme

Class 1: Critical introduction to aircraft noise

• Psychoacoustics effects of aircraft noise (commercial and military)
• Basic definitions of sound and noise
• Airports regulations, noise certificates, and aircraft noise trends
• Legal aspects of aircraft noise (including ICAO, FAA)

Class 2: Definition of noise metrics

• Instantaneous noise metrics
• Tonal and broadband noise
• Time-averaged metrics (ANSI definitions)
• Integral metrics (EPNL, SEL)
• Short- and long-term metrics (day, season, year)
• Noise quotas and Quota Counts (QC)
• Demo: interpreting key noise metrics

Class 3: Aircraft noise measurements techniques

• Standard equipment, description, accuracy (SLM, or sound level meters)
• Noise event identification
• Measurement locations; integration with other systems (FDR, GPS, ADS-B/Mode-S)
• Automatic noise tracking at airfields (FIDS)

Class 4: Practical demo of noise measurements

• Statistical analysis and data processing
• Beamforming techniques
• Comparison between departure and arrival noise signatures
• Noise characterisation (turbofan and turboprop engines)

Class 5: Airframe Noise Sources

• Engineering systems and network analysis
• Sources, characterisation, modelling, prediction
• Lifting surfaces noise (broadband noise models)
• Landing gear noise (various alternatives)
• High-lift system noise

Class 6: Propulsion Noise Sources, Part I *

• Network analysis of propulsion noise
• Fan system noise
• Acoustic liners

Class 7: Propulsion Noise Sources, Part II *

• Engine core noise (compressor, combustor, gas turbines)
• Jet noise and corresponding models (single and dual stream jets)
• Jet noise shielding
• Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) noise
• Demo: Use of APU on the ground

Class 8: Propeller and propfan noise

• Nature of noise generation
• Tonal noise modelling
• Broadband noise models
• Minimum-noise design and configurations: synchrophasing, etc.
• Contra-rotating propeller noise

Class 9: Introduction to aircraft noise propagation

• Long-range noise propagation models
• Effects of atmospheric winds, humidity, turbulence on propagation
• Low-order methods: 
  • ANSI/SAE-AIR method 
  • Noise-Power-Distance (NPD)
• High-order methods
  • Wave equation
  • Ray tracing methods
  • Other field methods

Class 10: Aircraft noise reduction by trajectory optimisation

• Elements of multi-objective optimisation
• Trajectory constraints and typical operations
• Noise abatement procedures: NADP (noise abatement departure procedures)
• Demo: Steep-descent, continuous descent, displaced landing; noise breakdown analysis

Class 11: Noise Footprints

• Characteristics of noise footprints
• Calculations of noise footprints, metrics and differential effects
• Airport and airfield model
• Noise abatement procedures: NADP
• Demo: steep descent, continuous descent,noise breakdown analysis

   *This is the default content. On request, we run a course on aviation noise, where aircraft noise sources materials are replaced by regulatory documents, community noise, and operational items.

Schedule (all times are London times, subject to change)

• Each session is approximately 50 minutes + Q & A
• There are two sessions/day, 2 days/week
• The course is completed in 3 weeks (11 hours of instruction time), as shown below
• All times are LONDON times.

2025 Dates to be announced

Week 1  Day 1,    (Class 1 & 2),   13:00 - 15:00

                Day 2,    (Class 3 & 4),  13:00 - 15:00

Week 2   Day 3,    (Class 5 & 6),  13:00 - 15:00

                Day 4,    (Class 7 & 8),   13:00 - 15:00

Week 3   Day 5,   (Class 9 & 10), 13:00 - 15:00

                Day 6,   (Class 11 and closure): 13:00-15:00

Course Materials and Delivery

• Lecture Notes and Case Studies.
• Podcast recordings.
• This Course is delivered online only.
• On-site delivery is available by mutual agreement.
• For specific content requirements, please inquire in advance. Course is tailored to special requests.

Price

• Unit Price: £825, all inclusive (US Dollars 1,150; Euro 1,010)
• Booking after the deadline: £925 (payment must be received before start).
• Group Discount: 10% discount for group bookings of 3 or more delegates.
• Maximum number of delegates: 16.

About the Instructor

Antonio Filippone is Professor of Computational Aerodynamics at the University of Manchester, where he has now served for over twenty years. He has published extensively on aerodynamics and related subject, and is the author of 4 textbooks, 10 book chapters, 80 peer-review Journal papers, 80 international conference papers and many technical reports for industry and sponsors. He has developed, with some of his associates, the computer code FLIGHT-X, which can simulate the complete environmental emissions from modern aircraft (both acoustics and chemical species from aero-engine combustion).  Further information is found on the web has his institutional website (www.manchester.ac.uk), on Google Scholar, ResearchGate, LinkedIn. A compendium of the FLIGHT-X code is available with the most recent edition of his flight performance book, available from the AIAA.

Booking

• For general inquiries and for a booking form, please use the box below.
• Registration forms should be returned by 30 September 2025. No booking accepted after that date.
• Specific content will be delivered by mutual agreement no later than 4 weeks before the start.
• Programme is subject to change. 
• Joining details will be provided upon booking.
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