PLT142: Noise Abatement
What code PLT142 covers, why the FAA tests it, and how to study Noise Abatement before your checkride.
Recall airport operations - noise avoidance routes
What this means for your checkride
Noise abatement procedures reduce the noise footprint over communities near airports: preferred runways, published departure and arrival routes, and altitude or power profiles. They are usually voluntary but expected, and they never take priority over safety.
Being a good neighbor is part of airport operations, so the FAA tests awareness of noise abatement procedures and where to find them.
Pilots follow a noise procedure even when it conflicts with safety. Noise abatement is always secondary to safe operation; you deviate whenever safety requires it.
Where to study it
A code on your test report is an area of deficiency. An authorized instructor must review it with you and endorse that review before you take the practical test, and the examiner may revisit it during the oral. Study it until you can explain it out loud, not just recognize the answer.