Noise Management

Runway 30, with aircraft departing northwest over Thornton and Taunton Rds., will be used as the preferred runway when the winds are blowing from a heading of 210° to 030° at less than 5 knots.

Only police, medical and industrial emergency flights are permitted to land and take off from the airport between the hours of 10:30 p.m. and 6:30 a.m.

Airport tenants with an aircraft based at the airport are also permitted to land during this time, however they are not permitted to take off.

All flights during this time period require prior permission of the Airport Manager.

Aircraft departing from the airport will fly on the runway heading until they reach 1,000 ft. above sea level (540 ft. above ground level) before they make any turns.

Aircraft flying into the airport will remain not less than 1,000 ft. above sea level (540 ft. above ground level) before making the turn for their final approach to land.

The following flight training restrictions have been established on a voluntary basis with the tenants and training schools at the airport:

• Only 12 training aircraft are permitted to do circuit training on Runway 05/23 at any time.
• Flight training aircraft will not utilize a touch-and-go departure pattern on all runways after 4:00pm on any Saturday or Sunday.
• Flight training aircraft are not permitted to undertake any circuit training on all runways on the Sunday or Monday of any long weekend.

• Integrated Airline Transport Pilot Licence (I.A.T.P.L.) program:
• Students are required to follow a stringent set of lesson plans where they meet skill and proficiency levels in the simulators before completing similar exercises in the aircraft. 
• This reduces the amount of time students spend in the aircraft and particularly in the circuit pattern practicing their landings. Additionally, Transport Canada provides greater credit for simulator time towards the licensing requirements for those enrolled in a I.A.T.P.L. program. The minimum aircraft time for an I.A.T.P.L. program graduate is 162.5 flight hours versus 200 hours for the modular Commercial Pilot Licence (C.P.L.) graduate. This is almost 20% less aircraft time to acquire the same licence. 
• A typical modular program candidate will create 900-1200 aircraft movements (take-offs & landings) throughout the course of their training. The same I.A.T.P.L. student will create approximately 350 movements. This reduction in movements is a direct result of the use of the simulators.

Noise berms are a very effective method of reducing ground based noise.  The airport has established 4 earthen noise berms on the airport in the following locations:

• running in a north-south line and located immediately east of the large hangarminium complex in order to reduce the noise associated with aircraft operating in the area of the hangars,
• running in a northeast-southwest line and located immediately southeast of the threshold for runway 05 in order to reduce the noise associated with aircraft exiting and entering the threshold of runway 05.
• running in an east-west line and located immediately south of the threshold for runway 05 in order to reduce the noise associated with aircraft exiting and entering the threshold of runway 05.
• running in an east-west line and located immediately south of the threshold for runway 30 and extending to the eastern limit of the airport in order to reduce the noise associated with aircraft exiting and entering the threshold of runway 30.

View the noise berm analysis found in the airport business plan.

View the locations of the noise berms at the Oshawa Executive Airport.