Originally Posted by
I spy
As much as I love to fly to Moorabbin and it's super convenient and I'd love for it to always be there, you've got to feel for them and can understand they don't want it to be there any more.
Nobody wants a plane crashing into their street and burning with meters high flames, but you have to be realistic... this has happened before and will happen again. It's just a numbers game. I took off last week and was in line behind 5 other aircraft lined up to take off and waited over 20 minutes as there were 6-7 already in the circuit. Pilots are coming here by the plane load to learn to fly because there's too much pollution in their own countries to fly without an instrument rating and with the looming world-wide pilot shortage it's only going to get busier.
They need to be moving these schools to the regional airports for many reasons and this is just one of them.