Had a chuckle reading this Age article
Sydney second airport plans | Airport circus starts again as this same topic was being debated/procrastinated about when I first came to OZ on holiday 30 odd years ago. Later when I moved here (sorry Green Goblin, I ain't going back yet
) and was flying jumpers at Pakenham, Victoria there was talk about a second airport being possibly built at Pakenham. I was told that this was originally a bomber airfield during WWII but has now been butchered and covered with bloody houses. Hope they have the same issues I had with the quadrillion flies that lived there. Maybe that is why Claude's C205 didn't climb that well; all the cylinder head cooling fins were packed with fly parts.
To the Dear Reader (sorry, North Korean joke) in this Forum, what IS the solution to the Sydney airport debacle? It really seems a bit stupid having a major Australian airport that has to close early.
There are some clever people on here so any sensible suggestions?