There are usually aircraft in the circuit on 29L or 11R. Great care is needed watching out for circuit traffic when on base for a 29R arrival. There was a mid-air a few years ago.
Bentleg,
Are you for real? Are we talking about the same place? I spend a lot of time at this big open space at Condell Park, referred to by the airport company as "Bankstown Airport".
There are, by simple observation, no aircraft in the circuit for quite long periods. Even the airport company has been forced to publicly admit that movements (a takeoff or a landing) are way down, and have decreased every year for years, and in my opinion, even the published movement rates are inflated.
What a contrast to the days when, by a large margin, YSBK (then ASBK - for no good reason other than cultural cringe Australia was moved from Axxx to Yxxx)
had the highest movement rates in the Southern Hemisphere --- around 400,0000 pa, now the "official numbers" are something like 170,000, and the was no night freight movements in the '60's.
For you blokes who worry about near misses at YSBK, god forbid you ever have to go anywhere near an actual busy airport (say Jandakot) you would have an instant total mental collapse and nervous breakdown.
In the '60s/70's, 15 aircraft in the circuit was not grounds for comment, on the old 05/23, up to five aircraft on final was not regarded as anything other than normal.
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