City Airport gossip
Interesting, how a newspaper goes on printing someones dead-reckoning speculations-in this case mine, gathered from pilot talk. I am not an investigator - I was just posting a probable logical chain of events without dramatic hype. I do not read this tabloid myself.
Why is Eros a ticking timebomb? There are airports all around the world with different hazards and procedures for safety and noise abatement - those are usually published in the AIP. Take a look at Jeppesen Bottlang Airfield Manual or AIP-VFR for European Airfields, great stuff really-why not have something like it in Southern Africa? "Airfields Directory" helps, but is not really compareable because it is not official. Probably all a question of money.
City Airports are a great thing and I think it a great loss if the general public turn against these facilities.
However no regulations will help, if a aircraft will not fly by the laws of physics in certain conditions - if human error is the cause or mechanical failure. Fortunatly longterm statistics in gerneral are in favour and I think it will remain a rare occurence- at least in my subjective view. Human error can be avoided by training and by the operators by incresing pilot awareness. Investing in this will be worthwhile in the longterm as the costs of relocating to Windhoek International (in this case) or the closing of the companies with a poor safetyrecord would be a lot more costly for everyone involved. In fact there might be an increase in casulties on the road that leads to the international Airport due to an increase in traffic.
Look ahead and avoid socalled short term solutions that do not effectuate desired results.