At the Navy League Sea-Air-Space Expo earlier this year, Dan Ratcliff, program manager of aircrew systems for Naval Air Systems Command, stated that the F-35C SPL is 152db, higher than the figures in the charts that show numbers for the F-35A.
Numbers in an EIS don't directly translate to the flight deck environment. Measurements around an air station are taken from areas (neighborhoods) most likely to be affected by noise, i.e. approach and departure ends of the runways, and underlying the patterns. whereas flight deck / on-field measurements for personnel safety are taken quite a bit closer to the aircraft.
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