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STOP THE NEW
FLIGHT PATH.
Have your say
before it’s too late.
The proposed
new flight path.
If enough people have their say, we may
The proposed ILS (instrument landing
system) flight path for the Gold Coast
will see airliners fly extremely low over
our populated coastline. If installed it
will be around for decades.
be able to stop the ILS in its tracks.
SURFERS PARADISE
BUNDALL
BROADBEACH
A website has been put together by concerned
MERMAID
BEACH
local residents so you can get the facts and voice
your opinion.
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LAKES
BURLEIGH
WATERS
What does the ILS mean?
The ILS can be used at any time - not just in
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bad weather. This means the new flight path can
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BURLEIGH HEADS
PALM BEACH
CURRUMBIN
TUGUN
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be used by up to 80 flights that come into the
Gold Coast airport every day.
MIAMI
COOLANGATTA
What to do
Up to 80 flights a day over your home.
This number will rise.
1 Visit flightpathgc.com for info & resources.
Noise over your home that’s the equivalent
to standing next to a loud vacuum cleaner,
2 Lodge your objection to Gold Coast Airport.
destroying our beautiful lifestyle.
3 Email Warren Truss, the Federal Minister
The ILS is old technology when more
modern, less disruptive options are available.
4 Join our community on Facebook.
There is health, safety and property
devaluation concerns.
*Please note that all images are digitally altered and are artist impressions only.
making the ILS decision direct.
Please turnover for example submissions and
to find out how to send a written submission.
YOU ONLY HAVE UNTIL JULY 13 TO HAVE YOUR SAY.
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EXAMPLE SUBMISSION IDEAS.
I don’t want the noise of between 8 and 82 planes over my
house almost every day, like trucks going past my front
door or a vacuum cleaner being turned on. I don’t want my
conversations disrupted. I am concerned about how this
number of planes and the noise impacts will grow as the
airport does.
I believe this is not about planes landing safely, it is
getting more planes to Gold Coast Airport to improve its
financial bottom line at the expense of me and another
60,000 people. I’d prefer (and so would tourists) the
Airport spends money on what passengers really want –
protection when embarking and disembarking from planes!
Aircraft noise is a hazard, the effect on my health is a risk
and my safety will be compromised if the proposed flight
path goes ahead.
I am concerned about my safety and that of other
residents and tourists. Allowing planes to fly in extreme
weather over the most densely populated parts of the Gold
Coast puts me and my family at unnecessary risk. I want
the planes kept out to sea.
The ILS is not worth it because visitors may find it
too noisy and not come back to the Gold Coast. With
planes flying over our most populated residential/tourist
areas, tourists and even local residents who visit our
beaches or parks will find parts of the Gold Coast too
noisy to relax.
The potential gain from old ILS technology and its
flight path is insignificant compared to how I will be
disadvantaged. The Airport says ILS is needed to reduce
diversions in bad weather for about 50 planes a year, but I
believe it is fewer (around 12) since newer RNP technology
was installed late 2014. So to stop 12-50 diversions out of
34,000 flights a year, 60,000 people will have planes over
their roofs any day, any weather, year after year. That’s not
fair.
I understand Airservices says Gold Coast Airport is
operating safely without an ILS, so this proposal is not
about safety. I believe Gold Coast Airport is introducing
ILS to cater for the low cost airlines that don’t have the
latest planes or technology - to my disadvantage and that
of 60,000 others.
I am concerned about my property value declining. So
while Gold Coast Airport makes money from increased
landing fees, I may lose money. That’s not fair.
I am a shift worker and am worried about noise impacts on
my sleep. Continued interrupted sleep may be dangerous to
my health.
I question the public consultation process. It should be
conducted by an independent government body and not
by a private company which has a commercial interest in
their own proposal.
I have children who need 10-12 hours’ sleep, not only
the 7 hours in the night curfew! The night curfew has too
many exemptions which will allow cargo planes and other
aircraft flying over my roof in the middle of the night.
I am concerned for my children because aircraft noise has
been linked to reduced cognitive development in children
and learning outcomes in schools under flight paths.
I have worked all of my life to build a home for my family
and now I am told it is about to become a flight path.
That’s so unfair.
I suffer from severe Tinnitus and experience pain, and then
consequently react aggressively, to aircraft noise. Around
1-2% of the population suffers the same problem.
Submit your objections before 5pm, July 13.
Everyone in your house can submit an objection. How?
1 Online via flightpathgc.com or write to Chief Operating Officer, Gold Coast Airport, Locked Bag 5, Coolangatta QLD 4225
2 Don’t rely on the airport to convey your submission. Tell the Minister making the decision directly what you think.
Please, copy your submission & send it to:
Minister for Infrastructure The Hon Warren Truss MP
Email: [email protected] OR Write to Suite MG, 41 Parliament House, Canberra ACT 2600
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