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Old 14th May 2008, 00:42
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Just got a piece of rubbish in my letterbox from the Close Essendon Airport action group. Talk about propaganda. Can't understand why you would move next to an airport and complain. The airport has been there since the 30s. I live nearby and love it.

Anyways, they are having a community meeting at the centre which is off the end of runway 35 on 26th May at 7.30pm. Maybe some of the GAM boys should do a mass flypast again or a simulated engine failure after take-off.

Here's their website.
http://www.closeessendonairport.com/

What a load.

Soap box off.

PS. I just checked out the airport crashes part. Worst safety record in Australia they boast!
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Old 14th May 2008, 00:49
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Suggest we all reply to their 'contact us' box on their website.

Airport was there long before they were.
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Old 14th May 2008, 01:09
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Can't see Essendon being closed in the near future with all the 'airside' construction going on! I wouldn't be surprised though if one day it was reduced to only one runway!
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Old 14th May 2008, 01:34
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I loved the little crash Vid the CEAC group out together. Pitty this group don't put together a car crash version, then again I guess they don't have a 1000 hrs of spare time to watch it!
I recall the Rudge Dove accident (DH104) very well I was in fact flying another Dove on that same evening & the phone calls I got after it happened from family & friends thinking it was me was incredible, CW ain't going anywhere just yet

They may very well get their wishes (close the airport) some day as the place is looking less & less like a landing place anyway

For now tho they (CEAC) give us a source of entertainment I guess


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Old 14th May 2008, 01:37
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Propaganda!!

Have a look a this uTube clip claiming Essendon has the worst safety record.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPZOcSojj-U

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In particular residents regularly experience:
-aviation gas in their homes;

-severe noise pollution throughout the day making it;

-difficult to hear a radio or television or to read;

-sleep disturbance at night;

-the need to abandon out door entertaining and dining due to fumes and noise;

-the current noise pollution process is ineffectual;

-there is no transparent and independent complaint
system to register pollution concerns.
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Old 14th May 2008, 02:28
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Oh yeah & the modification they want of the curfew hrs now to encompass the times 8;30pm to 7;30am no flying for ANY FLIGHTS , okay shall remember that. Sorry maddam, yr father whom was in need of urgent medical attention at his country property died today from injuries caused by machinery in the production of food for the masses because the air ambo's couldn't leave to rescue him after 8;30 pm due a curfew. Sound farcical?, as farcical as their wishes? Oh BTW that curfew was by the few who find it hard to entertain outside whilst a plane flies overhead! Yep like the A380 interior seat colours, makes ya weep
There's a buffer zone alright, it's called the empty space in their fragile heads!



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Old 14th May 2008, 02:39
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If you dont like it, move out.

I love these people who save dollars by buying a house near a airport that has been there longer than they have and then winge that its too noisy.

Its simple f**k off!
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Old 14th May 2008, 02:55
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The dramatization in the house full of bogans was priceless!

Inappropriate video to their cause!
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Old 14th May 2008, 03:23
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They complain about fumes & noise, yet are quite happy to live in modern suburbia, and drive their cars and trucks around, surrounded by fumes and noise!!
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I knew the former airport manager there in the 1980s/90s. He used to delight in meeting some of these imbeciles in his office by pulling out an airport & district map from the 1930s/40s and ask them to show him exactly where their house was located. Of course their street and house never existed at that time! It was an effective way of making an obvious point.
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Old 14th May 2008, 05:48
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Real estate propaganda.

I don't believe it's about safety at all.. It seems like a propaganda by Real estate people to make money.. Shame!!
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Kaptaan's right ..... follow the money. A developer will almost certainly be behind this - perhaps even the current owners (apologies to the owners if this isn't the case).
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DAM! Its unfair how this can be achieved... Reminds me of my friends seaside cafe... He owned some land beside it, sold it to a developer and a few years later shut the business down because the council forced him out of his main attraction live music from the newly built town housing resident lobbying action!
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Old 14th May 2008, 06:45
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Perhaps someone on here (who is more literate than I) can draft up a letter that we can all email to them!
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what a load of crap, some ppl have way too much time on their hands.

that youtube video was a classic gotta love all the cops with their porn star mo's in full swing.

The commonwealth should just say 'if the residents pay for a relocation then we will move it' that should shut them up for awhile

I wonder what happens if they develop the airport into residential? the old residents are all happy but the new resident now must put up with a jet flying over sheed at 3000' every few mins at all hours or will they remove sheed and have to replan a heap of stars into tulla?

someone said it b 4 but bottom line 'if you dont like it off'

HH the letter can go along the lines off

Dear Sir/Madam of the CEAC,

HOW BOUT YOU OFF

yours sincerely
KEAOC
(keep essendon airport open campaign)
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And to think that the Red bearded guy at the end of the video was once an Air Training Corp cadet rose to be Mayor of Moonee Valley and then tried his best to close the airport.

Where are you now BG?
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Money

It's nearly always about money, and the only thing that will be effective is money.
The businesses that operate at Essendon should sue the complainers for damage to their businesses and demand to be re-imbursed for the cost of moving, and building a new airport.
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Yep

Agree with Kaptaan ... follow the money. That web site reeks of somebody's investment, not a few, disparate, disgruntled home owners/renters. Buy a lot of houses, get the airport closed, reap the rewards. The airport owners would love it, the non aviation businesses already established and becoming established would love it, GA would hate it. But who gives a damn about GA? Don't underestimate how much private equity money is sloshing about out there looking for somewhere to spill.

But for mine, EN will be there for quite a few years yet.
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To the CEAG.

Dear Sir/Maddam.

Myself and my fellow colleges are quite concerned that some of our fellow residents in and around the area of Essendon Airport are not too happy with the current arrangements, IE: Essendon Airport (hereafter refered to as 'it's') use after hrs.
Regardless of it's use/s it's an integral part of Melb's daily infrastructure.
May I suggest in all good faith that you take yr concerns, yr voices, yr hideous little videos & apply copious qty's of lube to a large cylindrical object (because pilots/engineers etc are a concering bunch of christians) & shove it where it will have the most effect, IN YR MOUTHS!

As far back as Australian culture goes which I assume yr a part of (recorded) it's always been about "WE WHERE HERE FIRST" !

P.S.......don't under estimate who owns EN, am sure there will be some "Foxing" around to go yet

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