Noise regulations in Belgium

[cargo-dus]

Hello.
Any truth in rumours about new regulations in Belgium, coming to effect in June banning ops of older Stage 3-compliant aircraft like 747 Classic ?
Would affect quite a lot of operators,especially at LGG/OST

[johnnyDB]

I wouldn't be surprised, non-aviation friendly country!

[mutt]

Where did you get this information from? We operate Classics through BRU/OST.


Mutt

[MALLY]

And what about Diesel 8 's??b

[cargo-dus]

Colleague of mine out of BRU told me he heard it on the news.
Would of course affect DC8-60s as well (and probably DC10, though not many of these around in Belgium these days)
Not sure though if news referred to all of Belgium or just BRU.

[gtf]

Regional MPs are standing in for elections in June. Airport noise is their favorite red-herring issue. Brings them lots of attention, plenty of people in favor of eliminating as much of it as possible, and yet it's a federal mandate, so their pre-election promises to do something about it is like a 747-200 taking off over Zaventem. Very noisy, but it goes away.

The only sure things are a night-time ops ban is being phased in progressively for three nights a week, and whatever new regulation they may actually come up with will mean absolutely nothing and be enforced at will by whatever idiot is in charge, the current one applying existing regulations based on where his friends live (seriously).

[747guru]

I am sure the residents of Diegem (a town situated at the end of BRU RWY25R will be happy to see the back of 747 classics in BRU after the cargo b tailstrike incident last year, and ultra low level climb out resulted in missing roof tiles:\

[RampTramp]

As gtf says, it's all political maneuvering. The elections are coming up & all the politicians will bleat on about stopping the noise until they're elected & then, once they realise how much money the landing fees, parking fees & airport taxes bring to the economy it will all go quiet again. Happens every time.

Cynical RT