All this does is formalise an existing informal procedure. Aircraft from the west or north west can be radar vectored overhead Edinburgh and/or Parafield (with suitable coord) for a right base RWY23 intercepting final abeam the CBD (at approx 5 miles). Aircraft can also enter on a right down wind for RWY 23 and turn right base intercepting final at about 5 miles. That tracking would put the aircraft over the suburbs mentioned, and a few more.
Very few noise complaints have originated from those areas in the past. More likely to have noise complaints about POLAIR involved high speed pursuits or conducting school patrols.
This procedure is only used in VMC and only for local (Australian) operators. Foreign aircraft are, or should be, always vectored via Modbury for RWY23.
We are not talking about many aircraft being routed via this new arrival route and only when RWY 23 is the duty RWY. Perhaps the residents under the current flight path from Modbury to RWY 23 have had their fair share of the noise over the last 45 years or so since jet aircraft started operating into Adelaide.
However, it will give the residents of these so called affected suburbs something to complain about and then demand compensation for something that they have been subject to, without complaint, for many years.
Anyway, that is my bitch for the day. Think it is time for a glass of lovely Southern Vales Shiraz.
(BTW, I live "down south" and not under the existing or proposed routes.)
Regards to all
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