An alliance of complaining Brisbane residents say a royal commission is needed after a major study recommends only a limited response to noise problems by 2025.
since the opening of a parallel runway at the airport in 2020, says extra flights have been promised over Moreton Bay, rather than over suburban residences, for 15 years.
Foth said a royal commission to regulate the industry was necessary because Airservices Australia was partly funded by airlines.and are decimating communities with flight noise pollution,” he said.The new flight system recommended in the report is called simultaneous opposite direction parallel runway operations, or SODPROPS, and is used at Sydney’s Kingsford Smith Airport.
The report said a combination of technical, safety and weather factors influenced the adoption of SODPROPS.A five-knot limit is currently applied to tailwindThe runway surfaces must be dryThe Civil Aviation Safety Authority is examining a call to increase tailwind speeds at Brisbane Airport. On Monday morning the airport had 33 flights between 6am and 7am, 13 more than the maximum allowed under SODPROPS.Credit:Of the flights, 31 were outbound with people travelling to Sydney and Melbourne, many for business or other work. This switches throughout the week and by Friday afternoon most flights are inbound.
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