'Curfew for Melbourne Airport looms'

[Mark3000]

So these whiners buy cheap housing because it's under a flight path to save money, then want to complain and pressure the government into imposing a curfew for a free increase in their housing asset value.

Piss off selfish carpetbaggers.

So well said. These people are selfish in the extreme. Me me me. They could not care if 300 people are inconvenienced and have to divert to Adelaide to avoid the Syd curfew. All they care about is themselves. Petty selfish people.
I live under the flight path in Brisbane in Hamilton where land is actually very expensive but never in million years would I want a curfew for BNE. Car noise is just as bad. Do these nutters want a curfew on freeways too?

 

[MEL_Traveller]

As a Port Melbourne resident for past 15+years, I've noticed arriving aircraft coming "down the Yarra" and turning over Footscray/Sunshine to head for MEL more frequently in summer - I'd always assumed it was because of a prevailing north wind at that time of year. My place of work is and has been in the western suburbs for 40+ years and under the southerly approach to MEL. Planes are *much* quieter nowadays, rarely hear them overhead, never if I'm indoors with windows closed, compared to, say, 25 years ago.

Planes in general are quieter, but in the last week alone I've noticed three jets, around midnight or later, that have either been low enough (or the prevailing wind was such) that I've had to pause the TV until they passed... I couldn't hear the program. I'm actually considering getting the app for flight radar or whatever to see who's offending! (except that's way too geeky right?! :shock

An a380 heading fairly low overhead can still pack some noise.

 

[wandering_fred]

I grew up under the flight path of a major (not Aussie) air force TRANSPORT (not fighter) base, maybe 20 km out. C135s transitioned into C141s and C5As. Even saw a B36 at the end of its flying lifetime.

Amazingly there were NO complaints. Perhaps something about the base being the major economic resource for the area.

There should be no time restriction on landings at any commercial airport. Between 0100 and 0500 takeoffs subject to noise testing of the aircraft. But I think the B707s have disappeared.

Happy wandering

Fred

 

[JohnK]

What part of (Brisbane?) do you reside in JohnK?

I was referring to Sydney. Belmore to be precise which was never under any flight paths until Howard became prime minister.

I shouldn't have to put up with walls and windows shaking every 2 minutes during the day let alone at any point in the night. Not good enough. Take off out to sea.

And in Brisbane I am in Milton and hear the freighters every now and then in the middle of the night.