This is what the consultants report said:
"In response to CASA discussions on safety Council has recently adopted enhanced safety conditions which include:
Endorse changes to the rules of use of the Gympie Aerodrome as follows:
- No flights for aircraft between sunset and sunrise (powered and non- powered), 7days per week, emergency aircraft exempt;
- Mandatory radio use for ALL aircraft (powered and non-powered) using the Gympie Aerodrome and the airspace, including that radio calls are to be made when entering the circuit;
- Adoption of standard circuit patterns for aircraft as agreed with CASA;
- Adoption of a circuit pattern for gliders as agreed with CASA;
- Users are to remove gliders from the runway as soon as practicable after landing;
- There are to be no low level circuits in the circuit area; and
- No hovering"so evidently there are forces within Council that pulled the 72 hours out of the sky. So they have glider operations on the field which are dictated by weather conditions. Predicting gliding conditions 72 hours in advance is something that BOM can't even achieve.