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After that short but pleasant interlude, unfortunately it is back to Airport SOP...  

From McDermott Aviation Group, via FB:

McDermott Aviation Group
November 20 at 11:41 AM

Our future at the #sunshinecoast #sunshinecoastairport is being jeopardised as operational flexibility and future growth opportunities disappear by what seems to be a commercial development deal.

McDermott Aviation Group is the largest employer of aviation apprentices in Australia ??

PHOTO (A) Is what was shown to our business as the finished product originally when we decided to purchase two long term leases at the airport.

- Allowed for diversification and future growth by having two fully integrated runways.
- Allows our aeromedical aircraft access to the Sunshine Coast hospital facilities for returning Sunshine Coast patients even when one runway could be closed due to maintenance or an incident.
- Allows our new fire fighting helicopters to train unrestricted procedures without interruption to the Airlines.
- The Red squares are possible High rise buildings said to be on the cards now they have allowed the closure of our existing runway.

PHOTO (B) Seems to be what we have ended up with.

- Lost a full operational runway, the existing 18/36 community funded valued at $200million
- Airlines could face daily delays IF any incident or accident occurs on the ONLY runway, with two runway operations would remain on schedule by switching to the back up runway.

- No upgrade to any of the taxi lanes (plane roads) to any existing tenant sites allowing for their own growth to use the new $400 million dollar community funded runway.

- Code C parking bays ( For large VIP jets ) is disappearing and no replacement is incorporated into the not so “Master Plan”

So at the end of the day why are our very important year round services like the Aerial Fire fighting helicopters and Aeromedical services being forced away from our rapidly growing region???

The community has been misled in a major way.

While we are on ASA and the Sunshine Coast Airport...

From PH, via Twitter:

Paul Howard
@Paul_playwright

@PAIN_NET1 Hi guys, have u seen the proposed YBSU SIDS for new rwy 13/31? I ask cos I estimate SYD/MEL departures from 31 will cost extra $1300 in fuel & I can see no reason for R turn out except to save Airservices changing existing airways structure.

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This is the current airway system around YBSU & how it joins the proposed 13/31 sids/stars. I thought Airservices were supposed to provide a service to airspace users but that makes no sense to me !

Cheers PH, chocfrog is in the mail -