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Paragraph 3 Noise standards required for issue of a noise certificate to aeroplanes specified in articles 6(2), (6) and (9)

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(1)

Subject to the provisions of paragraph 4 of this Part of this Schedule an aeroplane having the maximum total weight authorised specified in the first column of the following Table shall not, at the points referred to at (a), (b) and (c) of paragraph 2 of this Part of this Schedule, exceed in the noise certification reference conditions the noise levels specified in relation to those points in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th columns of that Table, as shown by flying trials.

TABLE

Maximum total weight authorised of aeroplaneNoise level in EPNdB
At point (a)At point (b)At point (c)
272,000 kg or more108108108
34,000 kg or less10293102
(2)

Where the maximum total weight authorised of the aeroplane is between the weights specified in the above Table, the noise levels which are not to be exceeded shall vary linearly according to the logarithm of the maximum total weight authorised of the aeroplane.

(3)

The necessary corrections shall be made where the flying trials are carried out in conditions other than the noise certification reference conditions.