Jet landing on Runway 18 over the "Public  Safety DANGER Zone" AKA  "Marcoola Beach" <---- Click for Better (Or WORSE) view

Index

• THE 2006 MASTER PLAN
• Council's 2007 Decision
• Our PREFERRED SOLUTION
  
• History
• Singapore Flying College
• A POSSIBLE SOLUTION (Still viable)
  
• Airport Master Plan 1999
  
• The Public Meeting in 1998
  
• The Noise Report in 1998
  
• New LOCAL LAW
• Curfew
• Safety
• EFATO Exercise
• Survey Results from 1998
  
• How YOU can help
• RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
• Download a PETITION Against Extending RWY18/36
  

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The DECISION 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 the 11/29 Version which was OUR Preference which DIDN'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 - or - won't feel obliged to be bound by it. AND The COST will have EXPLODED by a factor of X10 or X20 times the Present - Hell! -  Council can't afford the Present Cost even NOW  (Take a look at Past History) The ONLY way we will ever get an East/West Runway will be if the Other Sunshine Coast Councils help PAY the COST!  - And they have already REFUSED to do this; SO - The ONLY way it will EVER Happen is; The State Government SUCCEEDS in forcing the different Councils to AMALGAMATE and, they COMMENCE CONSTRUCTION IMMEDIATELY!

And why have they adopted the 13/31 location instead of our 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 ?

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

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Airport Master Plan 1999 Edition

The Penultimate (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"

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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!"

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The Public Meeting 1999

At the Meeting on the 23rd. of February 1999 -- We asked the consultant FIVE Questions on Notice.

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After the FIRST Meeting we were not happy with the Survey conducted by The Consultants
so we conducted OUR OWN SURVEY.

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NOISE

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New LOCAL LAW

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The CURFEW

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SAFETY (Or LACK OF IT)

The Hazard of living on the Flight Path was down-played at the Meeting and we were quoted more STATISTICS like 1:1,000,000chance 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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The EFATO manoeuver (Simulated Engine Failure After Take Off) is not permitted over residential areas.

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	Yet Another Crash on Runway 18 .  Click HERE for more Details.
	And just imagine if THIS Plane CRASHED on Landing It's ALMOST Down as it is!!! <----CLICK Pics for Enlargements

A POSSIBLE SOLUTION
or a FINAL SOLUTION 2006 (Click HERE)

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.

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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 demanding to be consulted.

And next time you are bothered by AIRCRAFT NOISE-- Phone up IMMEDIATELY and Complain;