MBB Area
I'm a pilot and have lived in the MBB circuit area for over 40 years, (since birth).
1. I think it is fair that the locals accept there is an airport and that planes fly over and, sometimes, there are incidents.
However, as a local,
2. Clearly, there are quite a few pilots that fly too low and think that there is some inalienable right to buzz houses in a PA31 or King Air at 250 feet.
I think the locals would be a lot happier if aircraft flew at the correct heights.
On quite a few cloudy days, they seem to think that 200-250ft agl is just simply o.k.
I agree that the value of the land is probably so high for housing that economics is going to win out at the end of the day and it will be carved up for housing. But I've heard other rumours that an extended runway is proposed and they want to get small jets (717s or BAE146s) in to service Tasi, SA and Regional Vic more.
I don;t think that MBB can compete with the services operated by Essendon.