Sunshine
Coast Airport
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This is the Latest EAST/WEST Runway Proposal
This 2007 Version is not much different from the 1998 version or the
Preceding proposals all the way back to 1982 when it could have been
built for $10.3M (including a new terminal) instead of simply upgrading
the existing RWY-18/36 for $9.8M - The only difference is the CO$T.
Now Council simply CAN'T AFFORD to build it for another 15 years, by which time the Cost will have EXPLODED once again.
Unless the other Sunshine Coast Council are forced to amalgamate and share the cost it will NEVER be built.
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An ALTERNATIVE LOCATION for the East/West Runway
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CLICK
on the Picture to read the NEWS Report about the Council's Adoption of
the 2007 Master Plan and the Reaction of the Local Residents
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THIS was Our Preferred Location for the Runway which does NOT require Aircraft to overfly ANY Residential Areas
CLICK Picture for an Enlarged View
and/or
CLICK HERE for MORE DETAILS
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The GOOD NEWS is - They are NOT planning to Extend the Existing N/S Runway 18/36
The BAD NEWS is - It won't be built for another 15 Years
and;
It's the 13/31 Version which means Aircraft will still fly over Houses
instead of our 11/29 Version which DOESN'T overfly ANY Houses
But Hey! - 15 Years is a L O N G Time - That's another 2 Master Plans away (1 every 7 years)
We will have had 4 changes in Administration by then. Different Politicians will be in power.
The present Bureaucrats will all be retired and replaced by the present Junior Staff or new recruits
who won't remember this decision - and/or - won't feel obliged to be bound by it.
And why have they adopted the 13/31 location instead of our suggested 11/29?
The reason given is that the 11/29 location infringes upon a newly created NATIONAL PARK.
This is the SAME area that caught fire back in December 1991.
It was and still is - nothing but a Peat Swamp. That's why it caught fire in the first place.
And it burned and smouldered underground for weeks afterwards.
Does
THIS sound like the kind of Area that should be preserved for future
generations by being declared a National Park? NOTHING even lives
there except a few flea-bitten wallabies.
But some know-it-all bureaucrat in his high-rise office in Brisbane has decided it IS.
And so the E/W Runway must be located to overfly existing residental
areas rather than disturb said wallabies (if they even exist).
HISTORY
How did this BUSY
AIRPORT come to be built right in the
middle
of a RESIDENTIAL AREA?
Who was here FIRST ? (The Chicken or the
Egg
Question )
Who's fault is it that we now have a NOISE
PROBLEM ?
Why is the Airport now LANDLOCKED and unable to expand any further ?
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Here it is, the RED
DOT on the map
The Sunshine Coast Airport
services
the
Shires of; Noosa, Maroochy and
Caloundra
They ALL share in its BENEFITS, but
only
Maroochy PAYS FOR IT.
And the residents of North Marcoola
bear
the brunt of its constantly
increasing
NOISE POLLUTION |
Click HERE
for more Details
UpGRADE UPDATE 2005
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It doesn't matter WHO we vote
into Council - After a short while they all turn into PUPPETS for the
resident BUREAUCRATS. They ALL make the SAME MISTAKES their
predecessors made. The LATEST decision to AGAIN UPGRADE the Existing
North/South Runway could easily have been made by the original DUMB
MORONS that stuffed-up 10 years ago.
HISTORY REPEATS
Airport Master Plan
The LATEST (Number 22) of
never
ending series of Master Plans again advocates the construction of an
EAST/WEST
Runway.
The ONLY difference from past reports is the Statistics gathered on the
effects of NOISE on the Local Residents.
They claim that......"Airport Noise
does
NOT seem to be a PROBLEM for the local population"
Click HERE
for more Details
Singapore Flying College
An Unwanted Christmas Present
in
2001 for Marcoola Residents compliments of
Aeromil's
Steve Padgett was his deal with
Singapore Airlines
to turn MARCOOLA into The
AVIATION TRAINING HUB OF SOUTH EAST ASIA.
"Gee......Just
wot we always wanted!"
Click HERE
for more Details
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The Public Meeting
At the Meeting on the 23rd. of
February
1999 -- We asked the consultant FIVE Questions on Notice.
Click HERE
for their Answers
The
SURVEY
After
the FIRST
Meeting we were not happy with the Survey conducted by The Consultants
so we conducted OUR OWN SURVEY.
Click HERE
for the Results
NOISE
Find out
about
the 2 Year Study Plan which cost ratepayers at least $75
000 and how the Authors came to the
INCREDIBLE
conclusion that Airport
Noise was NOT a Problem.
Click HERE
for more Details
New
LOCAL LAW
The New LOCAL
LAW governing the Sunshine Coast Airport
empowers
the Council with new EXTRAORDINARY POWERS to enforce penalties and
ensure
its Airport Police against prosecution, but does NOT include any
Restrictions
or Curfews to PROTECT Local Residents.
Click HERE
for more Details
The CURFEW
The Council
and
Airport Management don't want a CURFEW.
They want
to bring in more business at night and allow earlier take-offs.
They could
stop operations NOW between 10pm and 7am, but they are trying to
introduce
Early Morning takeoffs from 5.30am. - And
they WILL if we let them (By remaining SILENT)
Click HERE
for Details
SAFETY
The Hazard of living on
the Flight Path was down-played at the Meeting and we were quoted more
STATISTICS like 1:1,000,000
chance of injury to residents from airport related incidents.
The VERY NEXT DAY
one of our neighbours was almost struck as a light aircraft made a
forced
landing on the beach where she was sunbathing.
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for more Details
EFATO's
Banned
The EFATO maneuver
(Simulated
Engine Failure After Take Off) is not permitted over residential areas.
Click HERE
for more Details
A
POSSIBLE
SOLUTION
If
Council
still wishes to proceed with a STAGED DEVELOPMENT as recommended in
this
latest Master Plan, perhaps the following suggestion may satisfy most
peoples
immediate problems;
The
existing
East/West Runway could be UPGRADED to share most of the RPT traffic up
to the size of Sunstates Shorts.
It could
also
be provided with Landing Lights so that the Flying Schools could use it
for Night Flying Exercises, which is presently the NUMBER ONE annoyance
for Marcoola residents.
This would
be a relatively inexpensive solution to most of our present problems.
Click HERE
for more Details
What
can YOU do?
The Council thinks it
has the
right to do what it likes because NOBODY COMPLAINS anymore.
We need people to stand up
for
their rights by WRITING LETTERS and COMPLAINING about NOISE.
SO - FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO BE
SAFE
Send your emails, voicing your concerns to ;
Council,
Members
of Parliament (both State and Federal), Ministers and the Papers.
And next
time you are
bothered
by AIRCRAFT NOISE-- Phone up IMMEDIATELY and Complain;
The Council's All Hours HOTLINE
for
COMPLAINTS is 5448 9618
or,better still, send them an EMail at : scairport@maroochy.qld.gov.au
And you can
call also call AirServices Australia through The
Brisbane Noise
Inquiry Unit on 1300 302 240
or, better still, EMail them at - community.relations@airservicesaustralia.com
or, even better, use their own on-line Complaint Form by CLICKING HERE
CONTACT
US
By
email:
-marcoola@mailcity.com
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