| Eight
Times More Aircraft Activity Over Our Sensitive Coastline |
There are regulations requiring
aircraft to give consideration to
breeding sea birds and whales but there's nothing stopping Moorabbin
aviation hammering the families who live and visit the
extraordinary coastline in the City of Kingston.
The
chart below shows a cross section of aircraft activity along the
pristine Kingston coastline. Our aviation colleagues have
appointed this as one of their airport approach routes. The
second chart shows a cross section of aircraft activity for another of
the airport approach routes over a semi-rural and industrial area.
The coastline route is being hammered with eight times
more aerial traffic.
The situation is much worse than it
appears in these charts because most of the aircraft in the Moorabbin
Control Zone do not use their transponders and cannot be picked up on
AirServices Australia charts like these.
(Each small green symbol shows
the position of a plane or helicopter - data for one day)
Above: Aircraft
Activity
over the Southern "Carrum" Route - Our Highly Sensitive &
Relatively
Densely Populated
Coastal Corridor.
This Same Coastal Area Has Been Identified By the City of
Kingston as Having High
Community Importance and Parks Victoria has Assigned
it Sensitive Marine Areas.
Above:
Aircraft Activity over the North East "Academy" Route - This is
Semi-Rural & Industrial Land
Find
this hard to believe? It's even more astounding when you
realise
that AirServices Australia has actually identified the following
Environmental Principles for dealing with this sort of thing:
1) Noise abatement
procedures should be optimised to achieve the lowest possible overall
impact on the community.
2 )
Noise should be concentrated as much as possible over non-residential
areas.
3)
Noise exposure should be fairly shared whenever possible
The
chart below is another way of looking at this information.
Note
the excessive coastal traffic compared to the semi-rural and industrial
zones which paradoxically have considerably less aircraft
activity.
(Each red line is an aircraft movement)
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