b'68 APFOPERATIONSNaples Airport Cuts Development Time for New Flight ProceduresPHOTO: JESSICA FLETCHER NAPLES AIRPORTBY SCOTT BERMANFACTS&FIGURES Project: Revising Flight Procedures Location: Naples Airport, in FL2024 Aircraft Operations: 123,1712024 Passenger Volume: 200,000 When Naples Airport Authority officialsfor the airports cross-wind runway, 14-32. Runway 5-23: 6,600 ft. long, 150 ft. wide saw a more expedient way to reduceCurrently, aircraft can only make circling Runway 14-32: 5,001 ft. long, 100 ft. wide noise, boost efficiency and improveapproaches to it. Now, well have a true, Cost: $718,000 for development of new arrivalsafety at Naples Airport (APF), they took actiondedicated arrival approach to each runway flight procedures (including flight inspectionoutside of the traditional FAA process.end, Rozansky explains. This will reduce services); $70,000 for noise modeling &Instead of petitioning the federal agencynoise impacts and benefit aviation safety.community outreach; $1.5 million for Part 150to develop new flight procedures for aircraft Noise & Land Use Compatibility Studyarriving at the Gulf Coast airfield, the AirportMulti-Pronged InitiativeFunding: Airport Authority financed 100%Authority retained a private firm to performHughes Aerospace, an authorized non-FAA cost of flight procedure development; receivedService Provider, designed, coordinated, $600,000 FAA grant & $30,000 FL DOT grant forthe work, including test flights that were Part 150 study, self-financed the rest completed in May. If FAA publishes the newand implemented the improved navigation Flight Procedures Development flight procedures in October as scheduled,procedures for $718,000. That price also & Testing: Hughes Aerospace Corp. they will have been designed, validatedincluded flight inspection services and all Noise Study & Design Consultant:and published in less than two years time,coordination with the FAA regarding publication. Environmental Science Associates instead of the three to five years that theEnvironmental Science Associates Timeline: Part 150 noise study 2019-2024; newtraditional FAA process is currently taking atconducted noise analysis and performed arrival procedures developed during 2024; FAAother airports.community engagement services for issued Record of Approval for Part 150 study inThe new arrival$70,000. Dec. 2024; test flights of proposed procedures on May 2, 2025; NEPA study completed July 2025; FAAprocedures willBoth projects were completely self-expected to publish new procedures in Oct. 2025 be a tremendousfinanced with Airport Authority funds and Key Benefits: Reduced noise & fewer otherimprovement for APF,stem from the Part 150 Noise and Land impacts to growing community near airport;says Chris Rozansky,Use Compatibility Study conducted by expedited development process executive director ofEnvironmental Science Associates from 2019 For More Information: Visit www.flynaples. the Naples Airportto 2023 for $1.5 million.com/noise-abatement-measures/; www. Authority. Changes willCHRIS ROZANSKY Naples Airport Authority, its consultants, flynaples.com/wp-content/uploads/Noise-Report- be especially significant April-2025.pdf contracted controllers in the APF tower and September 2025AirportImprovement.com'