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A community group fighting to have flight paths remodelled above Sunshine Coast Airport has called for the former runway to be reopened. Flight Path Forum, which had primarily focused on routes flown by aircraft, this week called for consideration to be given to reopening the old runway 18/36 which was decommissioned as part of the Sunshine Coast Airport Expansion Project to deliver a new, $334 million extended runway catering to Code E aircraft. Flight Path Forum spokeswoman Marian Kroon said local aviation operators had expressed safety and design concerns about the new runway since June, 2...

Mr Dunne said on Tuesday about a dozen Sunshine Coast Airport flights invaded his living space. "We chose to live in a natural, rural environment," he said. "I live on rural land on a hill some 400ft above sea level, with the planes coming in at what 1000ft - yes I am impacted." His concerns were backed up by other residents desperate for flight path reviewing authority Airservices Australia to carry out its announced flight noise monitoring in their locations in the hope of achieving changes to improve their lifestyle, health and environmental outcomes. Coast locals have not been backwa...