Who's
Accepting The Social Responsibility?
The
airport has freedoms
which are
unheard of in other forms of commerce and it does not have
to answer to either the City of Kingston or the Victorian State
Government.
The
August 2008 mid-air collision (above) occurred between two planes and
caused
one
of the planes to plunge to the ground near a school, instantly
killing the pilot. This was another in a long series
of aircraft
crash
fatalities. These
fatalities and serious aircraft crashes are almost yearly events.
This plus the ongoing impact which the
airport has on residential safety and amenity confirm an immediate need
for the following:
- A
discontinuation of all training
flights and all forms of repeated low altitude circuit
flying.
- An immediate cap on
aircraft movements and then a 30% reduction to levels
which existed before the airport was privatised.
- Considerably improved
transparency
of information and publication of data on all incidents
which have the potential to compromise aircraft, airport or community
safety.
- A moratorium
on use of the airport by jets, corporate
aircraft, regional airlines and other multi-seat
commercial operations and restrictions on noisy planes and helicopters.
- No
night or early morning flights and no arrivals or
departures when the
Moorabbin control tower is not in operation.
- Tighter
enforcement of civil aviation regulations and mandatory
use of tracking transponders
by all aircraft using the Moorabbin airspace as a form
of basic
pilot accountability and so that the public has
some way of
identifying and referring to aircraft.
- A
compulsory and comprehensive fly friendly policy
prepared in consultation
with the local
community and relating to more urban areas with particular attention to repetitive or low altitude
flying, helicopter activity and the use of outdated or noisy aircraft.
There
will be more loss of life in the City of Kingston caused by crashing
aircraft and there will certainly be a progressive and expanding
reduction of amenity for all residents in our
city. Tell
them you've had enough.
Read
About
MARA's Concerns
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"Has there ever
been a more disgraceful
buck-passing exercise?"
No one is accepting the social responsibility
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April
2010 - Near Death
Sunday 14 November 2009,
3:30pm
Another
Helicopter
Crash and Another
Potential
Community
Disaster.
This
Time into the
Grounds of Le Page
Primary
School,
Argus
St., Cheltenham
Read
More
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SHAME FILE
Planes
&
Helicopters As Frequent As
Every 20
seconds flying low over
Aspendale Beach, Saturday March 20th
Mordialloc Festival March 13th & 14th
Low Flying Aircraft Over A
"Public
Gathering"
Sunday 7th February
"I Counted 28
Aircraft
Movements
In Just Over An Hour - Less
Than 100
Metres From My Home!" (read
more)
Saturday 17th &
Sunday 18th October
A Shameful
&
Arrogant
Display of
Helicopter
Activity
"An inconsiderate and unrelenting
weekend marked by endless helicopter activity starting as early as
4:15am and continuing
well into the evening along the coastline and around the
airport.
Little
to no regard for the community and no apparent effort to minimise
impact by
staying well above homes, or altering approach and departure
routes or
utilising the indistrial zones rather than the residential and high
urban amenity coastal corridor.
Tell Us About Your Experiences
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Comments From Other People
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