What if Badgerys Creek goes ahead?

[Kharon]

BBQ logic

Here's an example of how the mind of a genius can be stimulated and lubricated at a Sunday BBQ. The boys want the Nobel prize by registered post please, "we live in a multicultural neighbourhood" they said......

We started discussing Albo's little AAT hearing problem and the Archerfield fracas which led to (inevitably) to Sydney airport. Somebody had a picture; and, 20 minutes later we've solved Sydney's airport problems. The photograph was produced during a sidebar, related to items of non-aviation related infrastructure (like ships) appearing in people's windscreens....

The image might also be useful when they start arguing about a third parallel runway! Consensus was, come to think of it, if you could get rid of those pesky ships altogether and accommodate a parallel 07/25 – a bit of ATC training on five-runway SIMOPS and bugger Badgerys Creek altogether.

I haven't had any updated information on this project lately, (**) but my understanding is that the development had gone a long way before somebody noticed there was an active runway and some pretty large ships projected to be loading, unloading and manoeuvring in amongst the B737s.




Picture courtesy Paul Phelan resident scribe - Pro aviation

Paul is reputed to have said : "This historic picture was taken from a B787 Nightmareliner on a demo flight to Melbourne presumably with smoking batteries unobserved by anybody but the 20-odd Boeing engineers on board".