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Airservices Australia has presented a suite of five options for alleviating aircraft noise concerns near Brisbane Airport.
Following a review by air traffic management consultants Trax International, Airservices has opened the ideas for public comment. It follows the release of a Brisbane Noise Action Plan, which would reduce noise impacts from the airport for around 140,000 people, earlier this year.
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The air navigation services provider said the plans would “deliver periods of respite from aircraft noise to 482,000 residents, while 139,000 would have aircraft noise reduced over their homes through improved aircraft arrival profiles”.
These include options that would remove daytime altitude restrictions on night-time flightpaths to “decrease the impact of arrival operations from the north and west over water, and south and east over land”, and “increase aircraft altitude permanently on flightpaths from the north and west to the southern runway ends”.
“The options we are presenting provide a real opportunity for noise improvements for some of the communities we have most frequently engaged with throughout the Noise Action Plan for Brisbane,” said Donna Marshall, Airservices Australia’s head of Noise Action Plan for Brisbane Program Delivery.
“New runway aligned communities, who are subject to both arrival and departure operations, could receive respite from arrivals in between peak traffic periods on an alternating basis with legacy runway communities.
“Communities to the north and west of the airport, who are overflown by aircraft arriving to the new runway, could also experience lower noise levels from the increased flightpath altitudes and smoother descent profiles. Some of these communities could also benefit from respite options.”
Brisbane Airport has welcomed the public consultation and said residents should make their opinions known.
“Brisbane Airport supports the Noise Action Plan for Brisbane and the work underway by Airservices Australia to identify ways to reduce aircraft noise impacts,” a spokesperson said.
“We encourage residents to have their say on the options now being considered through the community consultation process.”
Under the changes already announced in the July Noise Action Plan, arrival flight paths to the northern end of the new runway will be shifted north, reducing population overflown by around 59,000, and new short-approach connections have been created for non-jet aircraft.
Additionally, arrival flight paths to the southern end of the runways will be changed to enable Independent Parallel Runway Operations (IPRO), reducing population overflown by around 35,000; and departure flight paths to the southeast from the legacy runway will be shifted further east, reducing population overflown by around 44,500.
Public consultation is open until Sunday, 13 December.
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