Tidbinbilla,
Surprisingly the king air is pretty much the loudest aircraft that regularly goes into Essendon on runway 26. Must be the combo of airframe, engine, exhaust.
The DC3 is pretty loud too but unfortunately it does not fly as much!
The titans from A.J. also sound great.
All are louder than the biz jets, small and medium.
I honestly think the close the airport group get a lot of the traffic for YMML confused as traffic for YMEN. Mainly when rw34 is duty runway at YMML and the stars take aircraft over YMEN. When overflying Pascoe Vale and then YMEN the jets have gear and some flap out and there is some airframe noise. I swear these guys think this noise is from YMEN traffic.
Helen van der Berg commented on the chopper noise over the last 2 months. Of course there has been more choppers, we have had all these fires!! I was dissapointed the media did not cite this after her quote.
I got some great photos of the sky crane over the last few months, maybe I should email them to her...he...he...
Bulla..