In The Australian today …
'Unsafe' airport in line for upgrade
Airservices wants it, industry wants it, communities want it, Tasmania needs it - what will it take for CASA to approve an upgrade to Class C with surveillance to the ground at Hobart?
Hobart Airport rated as 'high risk' by CASA
In The Australian today
Airservices documents reveal it changed Tania Parkes' social impact study
Have your say - by Monday 7 January
Airservices: “The key to delivering a successful outcome is consultation with stakeholders”
The Hobart flight path review is at a critical point, with the submission period about to close on 7 January 2019.
Unfortunately, Airservices is not prepared to work with community stakeholders to develop workable flight path solutions based on a combination of local knowledge and technical expertise.
Another failed consultation
Airservices proposal confused, fails to comply with ANO recommendations
Finally, after a year long review, and an unexplained 3 month delay, Airservices Australia has released it promised ‘greenfields’ flightpath options for public consultation.
Unfortunately there were no options provided to enable genuine consultation, only a single very complex plan which, underneath, differs little from what was proposed in November 2017.
Airservices to consult on flightpaths in November
Airservices has announced it will now not publicly release proposed new flight paths until 31 October 2018, despite announcing in early August that its review was 'on track'. It has cited 'significant community feedback' as the reason for the delay, as well as the flight path design being 'technical and complex'.
We are pleased that Airservices's appears to be finally taking flight path redesign in Hobart seriously, we want to be sure that it really is starting from a 'blank piece of paper' and not simply tinkering with the problematic 'RNP1 SID/STAR system' which has already generated significant safety and efficiency issues, as well as imposing unwanted noise on communities.
Southern Cross News Tasmania - Wednesday 5th September 2018
Airservices must genuinely consider all the options for Hobart, including a range of flight paths (including visual navigation) to promote efficiency, ground-based navigation for flexibility, and radar surveillance for, safety - just like any other capital city airport.