Friday 29th of March 2024

aircraft movements...

 

plane sydney

this A380 is barely 100 metres above houses on its descent towards Sydney airport, five kms to the south. It flies above the slope of a long southward-facing hill — at 3 degree gradient...

From a stupid article at the Daily Telegraph:

THERE'S a saying in tourism: If Sydney works, the whole country works.

Sydney is Australia's major international gateway and top domestic tourism destination, which makes Sydney Airport one of the country's most important pieces of infrastructure.

Ensuring Sydney keeps working into the future means some tough decisions need to be made, including ensuring the city has the aviation capacity needed to cope with rising demand.

The focus of recent discussions on a second airport site miss a more obvious opportunity - getting more out of the airport we already have.

Sydney Airport's location just 8km from the CBD gives it a significant advantage, but instead of making the most of this there is an arbitrary cap on the number of aircraft which can take off and land each hour.

This is one of the biggest impediments to improving the efficiency of Sydney Airport. It's also one that could be fixed with the stroke of a pen.

Raising the cap from 80 to 90 or even 100 aircraft movements per hour would have significant benefits during the morning and afternoon peaks. Allowing more aircraft movements would help reduce flight delays, benefiting airlines and other airports.

The result would be a more efficient aviation sector and a more satisfied travelling public.

The noise impacts can be reduced through the use of continuous descent approaches.

This technique sees aircraft remain at their cruising altitude for longer before making a steeper descent to land. Planes all but glide in, so their engines are near idle and therefore much quieter.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/calling-time-on-curfew-will-keep-airport-flying/story-e6frezz0-1226519838736

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Two things (or more).

First. The theory of a "steeper descent" is a furphy. If you've ever been in a plane that does a real steep descent, you'll know your last meal is about to pop through your ears... and your oxygen mask might fall from the ceiling... The technique of steep descent is only use in emergency, in Stuka bombing or at airports where they have special buses with plenty of sick bags supplies... All aircrafts even in steep descent, keep their engines running. Whether they do a steep descent or not, in a strong uneven southerly in Sydney, the pilots still have to work hard on the engines, the flaps and the pedals... 

Second. There is something called take-offs. There are Northelies... Depending on the loads, some aircrafts push up quite rapidly... Some tends to follow the more economical low bottom-line above Sydney suburbs. Say, having a low flying A380 barely 100 hundred metres above head is quite a sight... But some planes are simply "lazy", especially after 21:00, they really take-off as low as possible to save fuel...

And there are some old planes noisier than others... I believe the DC9 from DHL has been replaced with a newer plane... But the old one took the cake for rattle... Not only that, its engines were fuming black smoke like brand new gloster meteors I saw fly in the early 50s... Phew... The smell of kerosene was invigorating...

And then there is also the small problem of "incidents" like the recent Emirate A380 having to return to Sydney  after an engine blew up... While this sounds okay, as these planes can fly on three (two) engines alone, but the 600 tonnes planes CANNOT land fully-loaded without damaging the landing gear, thus a returning plane after take off has to dump fuel "above the sea" (150 tonnes of kerozene?) to bring the landing weight to a manageable level...

One can elaborate more about the noise of various aircrafts (the A380 being the quietest apart from the Rolls Royce exploding engines), which have already been studied here on this site...

The curfew and restrictions on plane movements are there for several reasons, including safety, air craft controllers numbers and Sydneysiders' sleep. Bringing in more planes loaded with more people would also demand double the capacity of processing passegers at the terminal — already struggling with presently incoming passengers... 

Enough aircrafts, keep the curfew... More tourists can come in row boats...

 

normal descent...

Normal descents

Intentional descents might be undertaken to land, avoid other air traffic or poor flight conditions (turbulence, icing conditions, or bad weather), clouds (particularly under visual flight rules), to see something lower, to enter warmer air (see adiabatic lapse rate), or to take advantage of wind direction of a different altitude, particularly with balloons.

Normal descents take place at a constant airspeed and constant angle of descent (3 degree final approach at most airports). The pilot controls the angle of descent by varying engine power and pitch angle (lowering the nose) to keep the airspeed constant. Unpowered descents (such as engine failure) are steeper than powered descents but flown in a similar way as a glider. If the nose is too high for the chosen power the airspeed will decrease until eventually the aircraft stalls, or loses lift.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_(aircraft)

cap and curfew...

Federal Member for Grayndler Anthony Albanese today called on State Liberal MPs to come clean on whether they support Barry O’Farrell’s plan to increase the number of flights at Sydney Airport.

The consequences of Barry O’Farrell’s opposition to a second Sydney airport are now exposed for all to see.

“Under Barry O’Farrell’s plan, the restriction on the number of flight movements every hour would increase from 80 to 85. In addition, the NSW Coalition Government want flights taking off and landing after the curfew of 11:00pm and additional flights before 6:00am in the morning, “Mr Albanese said.

“What this means is more noise very early in the morning and very late at night – a practical end to the curfew, which is an unacceptable outcome for communities already impacted by aircraft noise.

“Barry O’Farrell’s plan to increase flights will end noise sharing and increase the concentration of flights over suburbs like Drummoyne, Balmain, Strathfield, Leichhardt, Hunters Hill, Gladesville and Ryde.

“State MPs for Drummoyne, Willoughby, Ryde, Strathfield, Epping, Lane Cove, Miranda and Cronulla must come clean on whether they support Barry O’Farrell’s plan.

“The Federal Government has made its position on this issue clear – we do not support any changes to the operation of the current cap or curfew and to the credit of local MPs, such as Joe Hockey and Scott Morrison, this has bipartisan federal support.

http://anthonyalbanese.com.au/cap-and-curfew-at-sydney-airport-must-stay

 

The second Sydney airport should be in Warringah, Dee Why sounds nice... At least the rich folks and the polticians would not have to travel that gastly slow goat track to the airport, making them wake up at 4:00 am for a 7:00 am flight... I know some of them leave the night before and hire a hotel room next to Kingsford-Smith (the real name for Sydney Airport)... And has anyone mentioned a helipad in the harbour?... What about extending the airport into Sydney Harbour — floating pontoons, great views of the Harbour Bridge overhead, on landing...

celeb cargo...

A group of international celebrities will be forced to fly into Canberra very early on New Year's Day because of Sydney Airport's night curfew.

The A-list stars will be celebrating New Year's Eve in Sydney before boarding a small aircraft to Canberra where a jumbo jet will take them directly to Las Vegas in time for New Year's Eve there.

It is believed Leonardo DiCaprio is among the movie stars wanting to take part in two New Year celebrations in one 'night'.

The party has been brought to the country as celebrity guests of Sydney's Star City Casino.

Canberra Airport managing director Stephen Byron says the capital's curfew-free status will allow the 747 to take off between 1:00am and 2:00am AEDT.

"A lot of it would be 747 freighters but in this case the 747 freight is A-list celebrities and that's pretty exciting too."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-31/celebrities-touchdown-in-canberra-for-nye/4448410

A small plane from Sydney?... from Bankstown, may be?... Force to go to Canberra?... To witness two casino new year's eve in one day?... A bit Celeb excentric?... 

easing safety regulations....

(Reuters) - Japan's government stepped in to give Boeing Co's now-grounded 787 Dreamliner and its made-in-Japan technology a boost in 2008 by easing safety regulations, fast-tracking the rollout of the groundbreaking jet for Japan's biggest airlines, according to records and participants in the process.

read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/28/

welcome to Sydney...


Aerotropolis: the city of the future?

The cities that thrive in the 21st century will be those that put airports at their centre, says US academic John Kasarda. But will the 'aerotropolis' serve the people – or just business?

We are, you might like to know, probably doomed. At least those of us who live in Britain are. This is because, in the 21st century, efficient, large, well-connected airports matter to prosperity above everything else. "The fastest, best-connected places will win", and the future belongs to the "city that can see the writing on the wall before the competition can even see the wall". While China is roaring away with $250bn of investment in airports, London finds the efforts to improve its infrastructure mired in environmental opposition, political indecision and local special interest groups. And, with London, so goes the entire UK economy.

So, almost, says John Kasarda, travelling preacher for the concept of aerotropolis, the idea that a new type of city will and must appear, where "the airport is not at its periphery but at its core". He combines a professorship at the University of North Carolina with writing books and articles on the subject, with a consultancy advising regional and national governments how to direct their billions to the achievement of their own aerotropolis. Boris Johnson has declared his enthusiasm for the idea, and Kasarda reciprocates his passion: "I find the mayor of London extremely visionary. He has his finger on the pulse. He has a dramatic style, but he's a very wise man."

There is, Kasarda says, a "new metric based on time and cost", and "location, location, location has been replaced by accessibility, accessibility, accessibility". Kasarda supports his arguments with batteries of statistics and predictions – that in 2030 there will be 13bn passenger journeys a year, compared with 4.9bn in 2010, or that an iPhone 5 is assembled from parts flown in from several countries.

read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/mar/03/aerotropolis-

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"Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Sydney Airport... The City centre is only 9 kilometres (6 miles) from here. You can wait for a cab for 30 minutes on the curb in the heat or the rain (choice is not an option), unless your friends that have been waiting for you have paid a minimum of $25 for a space on the other side of the parking lot. The old cheap State government bus service have been removed and replaced by private bus or train operators. Ticket can look exhorbitant for newcomers — unless your coach is supplied by your luxury hotel or tour group. A family of two would better better off in a taxi.  I hope you had a pleasant trip. Customs and paperwork on leaving this plane can take up to two hours but rarely more than one..."

Politicians are planning a new Airport for Sydney (to cram in more tourists) at least 30 kilometres from the city centre. Some pollies even dream of having it near Goulburn — 150 kms away — with a fast train service to the parking lot at Sydney Airport... We're in for a hiding to nothing... Nonetheless Sydney is a great place... 

See picture and story at top...


 

delays and fuel dumps...

 

Travellers suffered lengthy delays after a plane was forced to return to Sydney Airport shortly after it took off on Sunday afternoon.
A Sydney Airport spokeswoman earlier said that the United Airlines flight 840 "blew a tyre" when it took off shortly after 3pm but there has since been reports more than one tyre burst.

The Boeing 747, which was bound for Los Angeles, dumped fuel into the ocean before returning to land safely at Sydney Airport.
"This has caused delays to some international operations however all domestic flights are operating as scheduled," a Sydney Airport statement said.

"Passengers travelling internationally are advised to contact their individual airline to confirm their flight details."
On Twitter, people across the country reported experiencing long delays with some still stuck waiting in planes on the tarmac.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-incidents/delays-at-sydney-airport-after-united-airlines-flight-forced-to-return-due-to-blown-tyre-20131020-2vuwo.html#ixzz2iIV1Wf3g

Another fuel dump... Safety first.... read top article...

 

wind shears...

if one looks properly at the sky today in Sydney, one would see something that would annoy air traffic controllers... The clouds pushed by the wind are coming from four different directions over the city at various altitude... My guess is as good as mine, but I'd say that the 3000 feet level the wind in coming at about 15 knots from the West-NorthWest... at about the 1000 feet level, the wind and clouds are coming from the East-Northeast at about 20 knots (northerly sea breeze trying to establish) but at ground level, the wind is from the south at about 10 knots. each level seems to be having their own variable dew point. At the 10,000 feet level there is a seemingly stationary cloud in turmoil (it's moving in slowly from the North and fizzles while reforming at the same time). Its dew point seems to be unstable though but it is becoming more and more cloudy with hazy holes in it. 


So, what's the beef?
October 2013 may prove to be the second warmest October on record in Australia.  This morning there was a ten minute fierce shower that poured about 15 mm of rain at our place. Some people had more rain over an hour, with flash flooding and all that... Despite being "cool", the weather is still "above", considering the minimum was about 3 degrees Celsius above average while the day temp is about 1 below. But one has to also consider places like "Rabbit Flat" in the Red Centre where the temperature has been hovering around 40 degrees Celsius. So there. 
It now seems that all the layers of the wind shears have merged into a thick haze... The planes are running a bit hot, it seems, as they land with the wind on their tail, until they reach the 200 feet level where the wind is front on... I could be wrong but wind- things are weird.
Global warming is here and is real.
A few days ago, I predicted a fierce storm in the North Atlantic around Christmas... and they're already having one now... slightly out of phase... Usually such storms are in step with the moon phases, three days either side of the dark moon or the full moon around the solstice, with king tides to boot... The relationships are of course relatively elastic, but the most damage is done when tides and weather lows are in step with the moon — which they often are in European winters... 
Cheers or shears...
update: The major storm for the UK will be Sunday 3rd November... This will coincide with a dark moon (new moon) between the 3rd and the fifth of November... On the 4th, the storm will have crossed England and batter the east coast.

 

st jude only a rehearsal to st englatius...

The weather system, dubbed the St Jude's day storm after the patron saint of lost causes and depression, whose feast day is today, has brought down trees across the region and according to overnight reports has damaged property and left many roads impassable through floodwater.

The storm hit the South West late last night before tracking north eastwards across England and southern Wales throughout the morning.

More than 7,000 homes in Bristol and Bath have been reportedly left without power and rail and air services are facing disruption. On the roads both Severn crossings, the M4 and the M48, between South Wales and England have been closed.

Around 15,550 customers of utility company SSE were left without power, Downing Street said.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/st-judes-day-storm-batters-britain-bringing-hurricaneforce-winds-and-travel-chaos-8901530.html

 

the third of November is:

    * St. Martin de Porres

    * St. Winifred

    * St. Acepsimas

    * St. Vulganius

    * St. Valentinian

    * St. Winifred

    * St. Valentine & Hilary

    * St. Cristiolus

    * St. Domnus of Vienne

    * St. Elerius

    * St. Englatius

    * St. Florus

    * St. Germanus

    * St. Guenhael

    * St. Hermengaudis

    * St. Hubert

    * St. Malachy

    * St. Quaratus

    * St. Papulus

    * St. Peter Francis Neron

    * St. Pirmin


Update (see above): The St Jude day storm is only a baby... According to my sources, the major storm for the UK will be Sunday 3rd November (St Whatever)... This time will coincide with a dark moon (new moon) between the 3rd and the fifth of November... On the 4th, the storm will have crossed England and will batter the east coast. Gus says : 95 per cent chance...

of lows and anticyclones...

 

A stretch of the A71 autobahn in the central German state of Thuringia was closed because of winds gusting up to 100 kph.

The storm has hurricane-force gusts but is not classified as a hurricane since it did not form over warm expanses of open ocean like the hurricanes that batter the Caribbean and the eastern United States, according to Britain's national weather service, the Met Office.

Britain does not get hurricanes because hurricanes are "warm latitude" storms that draw their energy from seas far warmer than the North Atlantic, the agency said.

The storm is not named and does not have an "eye" at its centre as hurricanes typically do. On social networks it has been called ‘‘stormageddon.’’

Sweden's Meteorological Institute upgraded its advisory Monday, warning that a "class 3" storm that could pose "great danger to the public" as it hits western and southern Sweden in the evening.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/storm-death-toll-rises-to-13-in-europe-20131028-2wbti.html#ixzz2j320sLRb

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BASIC GUS METEOROLOGY with added pinch of global warming...

There are several weather patterns in the northern part of the northern hemisphere, not quite the same to the weather patterns in the Antarctic ocean (mostly due to the absence of land masses). But similar principles apply: A LOW usually brings rain and strong anti-clockwise winds in the Northern Hemisphere. In the southern hemisphere, a low brings rain and clockwise winds. A strong low (depression) can bring not quite-hurricane force winds, though the wind can sustain for much longer than hurricane winds. Lows (called depression in the northern hemisphere) and highs (called anticyclones in the northern hemisphere) ALWAYS travel from west to east...

Hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones MOSTLY travel in the opposite direction, FROM EAST TO WEST (with an away-from-the-equator tendency), yet spin in the same directions as lows — influenced by the Coriolis effect, like lows. 

Hurricane, typhoon and cyclone are three names defining the SAME phenomenon in different parts of the world. They are deep weather "eddies" formed OVER tropical waters where the centre is often clear of cloudy moisture despite being of low pressure. Tropical hurricane Sandy became a LOW (depression) when it started to hug the US coast, moving north-eastwards, until it was "sucked up" by a huge cold front and moved back inland, like a hurricane does in tropical latitude, though Sandy (as a low) was already much further north than the "normal" reach of hurricanes. 

About three weeks ago, after a heat wave in Europe in early October (32 degrees Celsius on the French Riviera) I was soon advised that strong glacial winds were coming in from the north. This was due to a northerly anticyclone (high pressure system) on the north Atlantic picking up warm oceanic air and dumping it on the Arctic, while in return it picked up cold polar air and dumped it on Europe, all in a clockwise fashion... Usually the dominant anticyclone in the mid northern Atlantic hovers above the Azores Islands — with variations due to the seasons. 

The strong difference of weather potential started to indicate more powerful weather systems than "normal". The "St Jude storm" is one of the effect...

Presently there is a strong depression forming in the north Atlantic with very strong westerly winds between 50 and 55 degrees N. This strong low will hit Europe (London) around the 3rd of November. If you live in Europe and especially England, be prepared for a second whammy. About 95 per cent chance.

It is likely that there will be more powerful storms (storms of the century now happening every five years) in Europe around the solstice in December and around the equinox in March.
Global warming is increasing the potential of such storms. make no mistake about this. The usual exchanges between the polar regions and the tropical regions is being accelerated by steeper temperature gradients, not discounting the jet streams in this process. 

In Australia, we often get the "high bubble effect" during El Nino. A high can nearly stay put above the centre and then move quickly to be replaced by a new high... with trough and low in between. The weather along the coast is also influenced by the southern ocean, which for all intent and purposes is warming up, like most oceans around the globe. Seasons of course have their own influences.

Today for example there is a string of highs north of the southern oceans while a couple of lows are sitting, "monsoon-like", above Broome and Darwin... But these lows are relatively high compare to the low above Sydney, thus the hot wind will flow along a trough from inland towards the south and east (Brisbane) to be stopped around Coffs Harbour by a cooler wind coming from the west south west brought in counter clockwise by the high in the Great Australian Bight (GAB). 

Sydney:Tuesday: Partly cloudy. The chance of showers and thunderstorms until later tonight. Winds W/SW 15 to 20 km/h turning S 30 to 45 km/h later this morning then decreasing to 15 to 25 km/h in the late evening.
Wednesday: Partly cloudy. Winds S/SW 20 to 30 km/h turning E/SE 15 to 20 km/h during the day.
Thursday: Patchy morning fog.

Here we can clearly see the influence of the High in the GAB...

So where does global warming come in?

It may seem like business as usual but it is not. Extreme weather patterns are going to become (have already become) the norm. In Europe, storms of the century are now storms of the decades, and this year it is likely there will be at least four storms of the century... I could be wrong, though the indicators are there...

In Australia, global warming increases the dry and the heat. It increases the wet and the wind depending on the weather "system" (low or high) we're in. During "unsettled" weather, it has less of an impact, though it can accelerate changes.  

By 2038, as calculated by some progressive scientists using many existing computer models, Sydney's weather will change DRAMATICALLY. The world weather patterns will change dramatically by 2047. Can this really happen? Can we cope? Do we understand????  There is 95 per cent chance that these scientists are CORRECT. So what do we do?

What does this mean?... my guess is as good as mine...

Most likely there will be a sudden widening of the tropical banding. Over a couple of years, Sydney's weather becomes like Brisbane's, as well as retaining its unusual Sydney unique hotter days (45 now turning into 50 degrees Celsius in the shade, by 2038). Tropical cyclones could reach as low as Woolongong. Tropical cyclones could be far more frequent. What does this really mean? From now, the damage bill will increase about 15 per cent from year to year with more bushfires, more storms damage, flash floods, long lasting floods and long lasting searing dry — this till about 2038. Then the damage bill WILL DOUBLE every year, not because of the price of fish but because of the doubling of damage... including more deaths. Water spouts in Sydney Harbour, Tornadoes like never before at the juncture of highs and lows...

You think I am kidding, don't you?... 

Anyway, we need to drastically reduce our carbon emissions and the only way is to INCREASE THE CARBON PRICING on all carbon usage, not just on power stations. Cars, planes need to be severely hit. In Switzerland the cost of the carbon pricing on car fuel is around $70 per tonne of carbon. We need to hit $200 per tonnes of carbon on ALL carbon usage by 2018. 

Tony Abbott is a dangerous idiot. 

Further reading:

 

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/28/australia-should-reduce-carbon-emissions-by-at-least-25-by-2020

 

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=extreme-climate-will-hurt

 

 

By the year 2047 the mean air temperature around the planet will shift completely out of the range seen in recent history. From that point on, even a cold year will be warmer than any warm year from 1860 to 2005 if nations continue to emit carbon dioxide the way they do now. And the new extreme temperatures—the new normal—will first occur not in the Arctic but in the tropics, where people, plants and wildlife are least equipped to adapt. That disquieting analysis comes from a massive new study led by Camilo Mora at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, published today in Nature. (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.)

The report begins with the recognition that the annual mean global air temperature fluctuates from year to year, even though it has been climbing overall since the industrial revolution began. If the world does nothing new, then the temperature by 2047 will exceed even the highest annual temperature from 1860 to 2005. If the world aggressively cuts back on emissions, then the date at which the temperature fully departs from modern history will be delayed until 2069. Mora and his colleagues crunched data from 39 different climate models that feed two future scenarios: business as usual (leading to the 2049 date) and aggressive mitigation (the 2069 date). The same two scenarios are cornerstones of the new climate assessment released two weeks ago by the International Panel on Climate Change.


This is the real McCoy. Tony Abbott is a dangerous idiot.

 

 

flying high a long time...

The Boeing 737-500 of Russia's Tatarstan that crashed Sunday at the airport in Kazan, Russia, had been operated for twenty-three years by a total of seven companies, including Air France and Uganda Airlines, and had experienced a serious accident in Brazil in 2001, according to media and Airfleets site.

 

http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2013/11/18/la-longue-histoire-de-l-appareil-accidente-a-kazan_3515328_3234.html

planes and automobile, but no trains to buggery creek...

 

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has unveiled a $3.5 billion roads package for western Sydney, saying it will fund the infrastructure that will make the city's second airport work.

But a tourism group says it cannot understand why the "infrastructure prime minister" has overlooked rail, saying the decision will leave western Sydney's roads more congested.

Mr Abbott is staring down criticism of his plan to build a second airport at Badgerys Creek, saying it has been put in the political too-hard basket for too long.

He says the combined funding from the Commonwealth and New South Wales governments will see the upgrades of major roads surrounding the Badgerys Creek site.

The Commonwealth will contribute $1.2 billion for the roads over the next four years, with total spending to increase to $2.9 billion over eight years.

New South Wales will tip in a further 20 per cent, bringing the total funding to more than $3 billion over the next decade.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-16/badgerys-roads-package-announced/5393682

I hope the flight controllers know what they're doing at the new airport... the Sydney air space is complicated enough for a provincial town...  But at the same time as the road is announced (completion time? 8 years?) the naphtine Victorian government announces a train line to Tullamarine about 55 years after the airport was built... There is no shame in being late...

Meanwhile:

 

On the day the Abbott government finally came clean that it misled western Sydney about Badgerys Creek airport, I was holding a mobile office in Doonside, catching up with residents.

During my visit, one of the most frequently raised issues was, when are we getting lifts at our railway station in Doonside?

The Doonside and Rooty Hill train stations look like relics of the 1950s. Upgrading them is a state Coalition government responsibility but it won't fix them due to budgetary restrictions. The Abbott government refuses to invest in public transport infrastructure unless an airport is involved.

read more: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/how-abbott-duped-the-people-of-western-sydney-over-badgerys-creek-20140415-zqv2s.html

 

 

Actually it looks like as if Tony Abbott refuses to invest into public transport EVEN IF THERE IS an airport in the mix... Read story at top... One of the criteria not mentioned in that story is that there is a need for separation of take-offs due to quite disturbing strong turbulence created by large jets that can interfere with smaller aircrafts taking off behind. 

 

when mr brûlé sets himself on fire...

 

Australia is fast becoming "the world's dumbest nation" because of nanny state rules and restrictions, says Canadian journalist and magazine publisher Tyler Brûlé.

He argued that Australians were increasingly being "mollycoddled" through health and safety laws, and that our cities were at risk of becoming over-sanitised.

"This country is on the verge of becoming the world's dumbest nation. There will be a collapse of commonsense here if health and safety wins out on every single discussion," he said.

"People think it's a little bit nuts here."

Brûlé, 46, revered in some circles as a guru on urban design and cities, was speaking to a sold-out audience at the old Sydney Theatre as part of the Vivid Ideas festival. 

He singled out Sydney's lockout laws, airport curfew and excessive council regulations on alfresco dining as harming the city's global standing.

read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/nanny-state-rules-making-australia-worlds-dumbest-nation-tyler-brl-20150527-gh9myx

RUBBISH... Mr Brûlé has been here five minutes and he knows everything... F&^%$ OFF. Leave the airport curfew alone. Other laws have been useful in stopping people getting blotto and killing each others... There is more Al Fresco dining in Newtown than there is in the whole of Canada... Mr Brûlé is talking shit.

 

bugger orf!...

The consumer watchdog is urging a review of the curfew on Sydney Airport, saying it has likely made it harder to manage congestion in Australia's busiest airport.

In a submission to the Productivity Commission on Monday, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said the Federal Government should periodically review the curfew and hourly aircraft movement caps at Sydney Airport.

ACCC Chairman Rod Sims said the restrictions — which prohibit aircraft from taking off or landing between 11pm and 6am — affect a lot of people.

 

Read more:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-19/sydney-airport-curfew-review-accc-congestion/

 

This lifting of the Sydney Airport curfew is an exercise in MAKING MONEY for the Airport Corp. Nothing to do with whatever consumer else. The Federal Government is building "another Sydney Airport" at Badgerry's creek. The residents of Sydney — paying rates "consumers", have more rights than the travelling "consumers". Sydney residents are entitled to at least 7 hours of peace during the night considering the airport is only 9 kilometres from the centre of town, with landing and take-off paths above heavily populated areas. So despite "advancements" in plane noise reduction, they still make a hell of a racket when they take off at 22:45 or land at 6:00 on the dot. SO BUGGER OFF! leave the curfew alone. 

 

Read from top.

bugger orf again!...

Sydney Airport's curfew is inefficient, exacerbates unexpected delays, and leads to more noise, according to a report released by the Productivity Commission.

Key points:
  • Sydney's Airport is one of four in Australia to have a curfew
  • The report found possible changes to the movement cap would make the facility more efficient
  • A second curfew-free airport at Badgery's Creek is due to be operational by late 2026

 

The report found the curfew — which prohibits aircraft from taking off or landing between 11pm and 6am — comes at the expense of airport efficiency.

The Productivity Commission, an independent research and advisory agency, released the 40-page draft report today examining the economic regulation of Australian airports.

"The movement cap and curfew [in Sydney] sometimes result in more noise and emissions, in spite of their noise reduction objective," the report said.

"The objective of managing the effect of aircraft noise on local residents should be balanced with reforms that benefit the community at large, including through improvements to the efficiency of Sydney Airport."

The report found planes arriving earlier than scheduled could be forced to wait in the air, rather than landing and breaching the cap or curfew, leading to more noise, emissions and unnecessary fuel burn.

Airport movements are capped at 80 arrivals and departures per hour, measured every 15-minutes.

Stanmore resident Tony lives under one of the airport's flight paths, and said he wanted the curfew to stay.

"We have a short curfew between 11pm at night and 6am in the morning and that should be retained because people have to be considered," he said.

"The Productivity Commission is looking at the whole thing typically as an economic issue, about the efficiency and the cost, we must think about the people."

 

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-06/sydney-airport-curfew-can-make-no...

 

Bugger orf, "Productivity Commission", you are a disgrace to decency and democracy. May be we should get your members names, go to your private homes at night and play loud landing and take-off aircraft noise by your window after 11 PM till 6 AM... You idiots. Piss orf. 

 

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