Submission to Hobart Airspace Design Review PIR
SECLA is made a submission to Airservices Australia’s post-implementation review of changes resulting from the Hobart Airspace Design Review, which closed on 19 May 2021. The submission was signed by over 100 members of the local community.
Summary of SECLA submission
This document provides community suggestions to the post-implementation review of the Hobart Airspace Design Review to reduce the impact of aircraft noise in the areas of Dunalley, Murdunna, Boomer Bay, Marion Bay, Bream Creek, Copping, Connelly’s Marsh and Kellevie.
The record of the decision to move the originally proposed Runway 12 jet SID closer to Dunalley suggests an incomplete analysis which concentrates rather than distributes noise.
Aircraft noise from the current Runway 12 jet SID has a disproportionate impact on Dunalley and surrounding communities, due to a range of factors including the low levels of ambient noise and the area’s history of never being previously overflown.
There appears to be scope to shorten the Runway 12 jet SID, which could also provide an efficiency benefit for airline operators.
We suggest that the point at which jet aircraft turn left and cross the coast after departing Runway 12 be moved as close as possible to the airport via one or more of the following options:
Move the current Runway 12 jet SID to the location originally proposed and consulted on in October 2018
Add a second Runway 12 jet SID to follow the track of the Runway 12 non-jet SID as closely as possible, to be used when safe to do so
Implement a surveillance service at Hobart as proposed in Airservices Australia’s submission to CASA, to reduce lateral separation distances between Runway 12 non-jet and jet SID, or to allow management of occasional non-jet traffic via surveillance-based control
Download the public version of SECLA’s full submission here.