Texs, Flies, Sadistics, but no Videotape
– that would be too easy while identifying & offending Flight Training Group - the current major polluter.
Accepting Airservices Australia's Parafield noise pollution reports is condoning a disservice to the Australian public. They continue to measure noise pollution as noise events, not as a noise dose. The reports have no real conclusion, yet there is a serious problem.
Noise event samples, experience each duration:
http://sites.google.com/site/parafieldairportnoisepollution/9-11---2008-parafield---a-typical-days-flight-training/morning-gory Please note, households have copped this rot up to 2000 overflights in a single day!! Our EPA maximum noise levels for a residential area with some commerce is 55dB(A) 7AM to 10PM, and 45dB(A) 10PM to 7AM. Most turning/accelerating overflights measure between 60dB(A), at times exceeding 80dB(A), over thousands of family homes!
Official reports grossly misrepresent the true adverse flight training pollution that residents around Parafield endure. Like Airservices’ predecessor, CAA's Federal Report 1232 from March 1993, where it was publicly gloated when measurements would take place, the actual noise dose of continuous Parafield overflights remains not officially measured or recognized. Then airport management and Ministers use these reports to effectively justify themselves ignoring thousands of complaints. Even back then, the same family homes were experiencing well over 1000 screeching training overflights per day, while our taxes are used to perpetuate this rot.
Queries about who is actually responsible to properly measure this industrial flight training noise/pollution over/in our homes remain unanswered.
The latest Airservices report PF1494 measures aircraft noise from 19th October 2006 to 30th January 2007, covering 104 days. Multiplying this with the 4 month daily average of Parafield movements as quoted by the Airservices aircraft movement summaries during October 2006 to January 2007, implies an averaged 69,924 aircraft movements over Parafield environs during Airservices’ PF1494 report’s measuring period. Compare this with their confusing 17088 ‘ODW’ movement figures used in their report. The additional noise dose/duration imposed over those thousands of homes under the four turning arcs, of each of the training circuit paths, also remains unmeasured and officially unrecognised.
Nothing is in place to accurately verify quoted Parafield aircraft movement numbers. PF1494 Initially correlated 1521 noise events, that’s just over 2% of movements, later increasing to 8563 in the addendum, about 12% of Parafield aircraft movements. In ‘uncontrolled airspace’, flight training can easily avoid, fan out or lightly coast around the sole measuring site, which was after all, located in a primary school.
From the attachments Airservices Australia quotes ~86,298 Parafield aircraft movements (2490 were helicopters) during the four months Oct 2006 to Jan2007. About 95 to 98% of this is foreign flight training benefiting foreign investors while we subsidise the 'convenient' infrastructure, and security. Link to Governance Material and House of Representation Select Committee Recommendations on Aircraft Noise (HORSCAN):
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http://stopparafieldairnoise.blogspot.com/2008/05/parafield-endless-flight-training-noise.html#links
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