Airservices to review Brisbane flight paths amid growing community outrage australianaviation.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from australianaviation.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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July 23, 2021
Brisbane’s new runway opened on 11 July with a water cannon salute to the first flight by a Virgin 737-8FE (BNE)
CASA has thrown out Brisbane Airport’s request to increase the allowable tailwind for aircraft, which would have seen fewer planes flying over the homes of inner-city residents.
The safety authority said the proposal do not “provide sufficient evidence or data” to support the change and cited international regulations ruling that noise pollution should not be a factor in changing tailwind allowance.
Residents of Brisbane’s inner-city suburbs, including New Farm, Bulimba, Teneriffe, Hamilton and Hawthorn have spent months lobbying and protesting against excessive aircraft noise pollution over their homes following the introduction of Brisbane’s second parallel runway.
Rework Brisbane Airport flight paths from scratch, say campaigners australianaviation.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from australianaviation.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Premium Content Fancy an alarm clock, hair dryer or coffee grinder going off from 6am, multiple times a day, every day? That is the level of noise experienced in many suburbs since new flight paths came into effect following the opening of Brisbane s second runway last July. Airservices Australia s online Webtrak site shows noise levels have shot up at a dozen monitoring sites from Nudgee in the east, to Bardon in the west and south as far as Salisbury. Webtrak showed some of the stations routinely record noise levels above 70 decibels (dB) in the morning on April 20, for example - equivalent to a washing machine.
Airport corp âmisledâ public about over-the-Bay flights Brisbane Airport Corporation second runway opening in July last year. Residents say BAC new flights over the Bay were not realistic. Picture: Beau Chenery
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Subscriber only Airport authorities repeatedly told the public a new runway would fix noise issues by directing most flights over Moreton Bay, despite now saying tail winds make that too dangerous. A scathing submission to an inquiry into aircraft noise said Brisbane Airport Corporation s implementation of the runway and new flight paths was so flawed it needed to be done all over again.