Another airport being ruined by rich bastards

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Originally Posted by PiperCameron

Here's Australian Flying's summary of the issue: Consultation Session raises Fears for GA at Canberra - Australian Flying

How wonderfully altruistic of the Capital Airport Group to sacrifice part of runway 12 in the interests of the safety of road users outside the airport and aircraft on approach to 12 (though, weirdly, road users and aircraft on approach at the other end apparently don't matter).

But hang on a sec'. Apparently runway 12 "has been used on average less than once a day for the past four years" and "the only aircraft that use Runway 12 for landing are light GA aircraft less than 5700 kg."

Let's assume that's all true. And let's set aside the fact that aircraft "use" the runway they're told by ATC to use and any out-of-tower hours use would be unknown to Airservices.

It follows that - on CAG's own logic - the "safety" issue is caused by one light aircraft flying an approach on average less than once a day. One light aircraft. Less than once a day. And that's the "safety" basis for displacing the threshold.

What sickens me most about the dismantling of GA infrastructure in the interests of private profits these days is the carefree arrogance of the bull**** justifications for it. But why wouldn't they be arrogant? They're allowed to get away with it.