Originally Posted by
Iron Duke
Despite Filton being in every sense a more suitable International Airport (communication, space, big runway, near the city center etc...) it fell foul of noise problems with the juxtaposed housing developments and approach over the city. Lulsgate, with it's relative remoteness sufferred none of these problems and the local authorities put their weight behind its case.
The thing is the approach isn't over the city at all - a quick reference check on Google Earth shows that the approach to 09 crosses nothing other than an industrial bit of Avonmouth and the approach to 27 is to the South of Sadly Broke, only overflying a bit of Stoke Gifford.
I find it somewhat ironic that part of the campaign against Filton expansion comes from the environmental lobby (including the local FoE run until recently by my parents!), when the environmental cost of continually expanding an airport in self-evidently the "wrong" place is massively greater.
To return the thread to operational matters, what if any are the implications for rejected take offs of the self-evidently sub-standard temporary surface?