2nd North South Runway at Melbourne Airport
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This might be 'bye' to YMML if the NIMBYs get their way. After the delay with the proposed 09R/27L, the switch to N/S orientation seems strange. I don't necessarily think the wind modelling is the sole factor for the switch, because from a terminal access point of view the E/W runway would have been a much better option. You'd think they'd want to get a move on given the capacity will top out soon.
This was discussed some weeks ago here. As for wind modelling, ask yourself how many times wind direction and strength prevent 16/34 ops? almost never. Same can't be said for 09/27.
Parallel 16/34 runways are the way to go. They probably resolved this too which was stopping it. https://www.theage.com.au/melbourne-...18-p4zg55.html
Parallel 16/34 runways are the way to go. They probably resolved this too which was stopping it. https://www.theage.com.au/melbourne-...18-p4zg55.html
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This might be 'bye' to YMML if the NIMBYs get their way. After the delay with the proposed 09R/27L, the switch to N/S orientation seems strange. I don't necessarily think the wind modelling is the sole factor for the switch, because from a terminal access point of view the E/W runway would have been a much better option. You'd think they'd want to get a move on given the capacity will top out soon.
If it does go ahead, it's just another example of how government's lie then trounce all over citizens when they complain. All for the advancement of the industry, but serious steps were taken many years ago to SPECIFICALLY outline the areas that would be affected by aircraft noise and now the rules are all changed and it's bad luck presumably???
I don't think it'd be a bad idea to invest in YMAV, it is a vast area, not terribly bordered by housing and one side of it practically faces out to sea. The size Melbourne is growing, it makes sense to start spreading the infrastructure. YMML is a crap airport in many ways... it was out of date within a year of opening with the arrival of the 747, despite the construction authority knowing years earlier that 747s were coming they still built it for 707s and DC-8s... it took YEARS to do anything about it and when they did all I see is mistake after mistake, particularly in terminal development.
So, I wouldn't be too hard on the "NIMBYs", they are just highlighting the sort of government and corporate action often alluded to in these pages for other reasons.
From what I've heard, the 'community consultation' was a bloody joke.
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YMAV is not an option. At least not for PAX. Had it been on the other side of the bay, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
And if the community consultation "was a joke", well, I wouldn't disagree. It may be just tokenism, because, in the end, the runway(s) will have to be built.
Could it possibly be that the "NIMBYs" have a reasonable argument considering the vast majority of them built houses and moved to the area being assured of a completely different runway layout???
YMAV and some massive under bay tunnel work.....
Or have a look at RJBB, anything can be done.
Then again it is Straya, only took longer than settling the colonies to start work on Sidney’s second.
Just bring in the Wagners and ask them to get whatever is chosen done, Wellcamp certainly proves without the red tape what can be done.
Now back to YMML, can someone help me with my land title, I’m sure I left it on the bar in Y & J one night!
Or have a look at RJBB, anything can be done.
Then again it is Straya, only took longer than settling the colonies to start work on Sidney’s second.
Just bring in the Wagners and ask them to get whatever is chosen done, Wellcamp certainly proves without the red tape what can be done.
Now back to YMML, can someone help me with my land title, I’m sure I left it on the bar in Y & J one night!
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It has also been part of the airport's development plans for fifty years...
YMAV and some massive under bay tunnel work.....
Or have a look at RJBB, anything can be done.
https://youtu.be/yXbT2zL5yRA
Then again it is Straya, only took longer than settling the colonies to start work on Sidney’s second.
Just bring in the Wagners and ask them to get whatever is chosen done, Wellcamp certainly proves without the red tape what can be done.
Now back to YMML, can someone help me with my land title, I’m sure I left it on the bar in Y & J one night!
Or have a look at RJBB, anything can be done.
https://youtu.be/yXbT2zL5yRA
Then again it is Straya, only took longer than settling the colonies to start work on Sidney’s second.
Just bring in the Wagners and ask them to get whatever is chosen done, Wellcamp certainly proves without the red tape what can be done.
Now back to YMML, can someone help me with my land title, I’m sure I left it on the bar in Y & J one night!
Cheers hoss58
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Many years ago I/we where being vectored on to 16 at ML when App said Rwy 09 is avail, advise! We looked at each other in the cockpit and thought, have we got charts for that RWY? -) First time in 40 years!
Sorry, but places like Keilor were built up based on a certain runway configuration, per the signage that was on every boundary line for years. It's why people abandoned Gladstone Park initially and went to Keilor instead although eventually the land at GP was sold (there were half built houses and sales of land for years after though). Now the owners of the airport have allowed multiple businesses to build infrastructure where the runways were supposed to be so have changed the configuration. People in places like Keilor DID make an informed choice based on one assured way of expansion and it has changed.
Because government thinks it can just sell off assets then wash its hands of any consequences and then as we've seen in the media the last few weeks, apply for FOI information and you get 50 blacked out pages.
Rubbish. The runway alignment in the Melways was for many years (decades) based on that in the Melbourne Airport Opening book and the big billboards all around the airport boundary. The Airport has allowed companies to develop land where the runways were to originally be, where they were to be when those residents bought their houses and now they are planning the runways significantly north of where they were going to be. You can't just brush this off as "they should have known". I know people who have been in Keilor 47 years and the runways were never planned to be like that, in fact some chose Keilor over Gladston Park for that very reason and now the government has sold the airports and washed its hands of any responsibility.
hahaha I used to watch it from the back seat of my FC Holden, although missed most of the movies...lolol
Ahh the good old days. I worked out at Tulla started 1979 at the fuel depot (JUHI) back then there was always talk of a 3rd Rwy being built very soon, I guess soon wasn't anytime soon back then:-)
Side note: As most would know the drome was designed for the largest jets of the day B707 DC8 Etc so when the Jumbo Jets turned up not long after Tulla was opened it was chaos as the hydrants the gates etc needed extensive modification, I recall many a late night on the apron with crews modifying the Hydrant system that was only a few years old!:-)
Another side note (sorry): Being involved with much of the underground beneath Tulla I always laugh when I hear about a train station being already there for the future rail link to Tulla, trust me there are LOTS of hidden tunnels & locked steel doors down there, it's a rat infested rabbit warren where you could get lost & never be seen again!:-):-)
40 years latter I'm still waiting for that 3rd Rwy...………..will be another 40 years before we see it if ever!:-)
Ahh the good old days. I worked out at Tulla started 1979 at the fuel depot (JUHI) back then there was always talk of a 3rd Rwy being built very soon, I guess soon wasn't anytime soon back then:-)
Side note: As most would know the drome was designed for the largest jets of the day B707 DC8 Etc so when the Jumbo Jets turned up not long after Tulla was opened it was chaos as the hydrants the gates etc needed extensive modification, I recall many a late night on the apron with crews modifying the Hydrant system that was only a few years old!:-)
Another side note (sorry): Being involved with much of the underground beneath Tulla I always laugh when I hear about a train station being already there for the future rail link to Tulla, trust me there are LOTS of hidden tunnels & locked steel doors down there, it's a rat infested rabbit warren where you could get lost & never be seen again!:-):-)
40 years latter I'm still waiting for that 3rd Rwy...………..will be another 40 years before we see it if ever!:-)
No, that's wrong. I have the opening book and the info from the time. The original runways were to be where the industrial estate is now.
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The whole thing was a government cock up, they knew for YEARS that the 747 was coming and the runways were completed years before the terminals. The terminals and infrastructure plans could have been EASILY changed but weren't so the airport was out of date within a year. Compare that with Changi and even DFW where I have seen both marketing/development material and both added 20-30% to the size of (then) current aircraft to allow for expansion. I may be wrong but I think this is one of very few LNP infrastructure projects in our history (Tulla) and it's funny that it was a white elephant. Not just the hydrants but half the aerobridges were useless once the terminal was handling mainly 747/DC-10 type aircraft. It took them nearly 25 years just to move some aerobridges in a pathetic attempt to update it.
There's plenty more stories but am off track here:-)
(did see once in the paper a water park..6 degrees and overcast in Melbourne middle of November it’ll get used for two months tops .lol)
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1975 Melway showing the original second nth/sth runway proposal located where the factories and warehouses have been built.
https://digitised-collections.unimel...12&isAllowed=y
https://digitised-collections.unimel...12&isAllowed=y
