Like Tony Matheus (CCN 431), and many other residents, we are quite tired with the level of noise pollution caused by the light aircraft from Central Coast Airport at Warnervale.
We have spoken to the airport (CEO, Andrew Smith) , Central Coast Council (Nigel Fitzgibbon) and the NCIS (Noise Complaints and Information Service).
None of them can or want to help with the current situation.
Our reasons were that pilots are flying well beyond the circuit guidelines into dense residential areas.
They do circuit flying seven days a week and start very early in the morning.
These planes are very loud and annoying, not to mention the pollution they spew onto us every day.
We were told by a Warnervale Airport spokesman that pilots can be informed to abide by the guidelines but cannot police other pilots.
This does not seem fair at all, what is the purpose of circuit guidelines if the pilots do not have to abide by them?
A question which should be asked is: Do we really need this airport?
What value does it bring to the thousands of residents in this area, apart from noise and air pollution?
Would this piece of land be better served if it was repurposed into a new town centre or mall for this ever-growing area.
Imagine the employment this will create for this community.
Can Central Coast Council work with the airport to find land further west, away from our densely built-up residential areas?
Why should we pay our hard-earned money, in the form of tax, to upgrade an airport, which frankly no-one here needs, apart from a handful of people?
Email, Apr 29
when you buy or build a house close to an airport that has been there for many years stop complaining when aircraft are being flow from there. This is typical NIMBY ism
if you had built your houses with a reasonable space between them so the sound of aircraft didn’t bounce around from the ugly brick walls of you houses that would have been a good idea. Then of course you could have planted masses of green carbon dioxide absorbing trees between your houses and you could have lots of trees along all roads instead of destroying natural habitat for birds possums and koalas. you reap what you have sown. all of these will also lower the air temperature in your brick ugly suburbs
then of course light coloured roofs and somthing other than black tar seals roads will all help stop complaining you all built and bought there
You are conflating residential development issues with aircraft noise.
Be grateful to people who speak up about concerns which affect many others.
It’s usually a good idea to inform oneself of the facts about an issue before criticising others points of view. The light aircraft operating from Warnervale airfield have only become a problem for the residents Mr Graem is criticising since the Warnervale Airport Restrictions act was repealed in 2020. The president of the Aero club has himself recently stated that there has been a 300% increase in activity since then. It’s therefore very likely that those who are concerned with this aircraft noise were residing here before this increased activity became an issue, In my case, 24 years Mr Graem!
Well said Tony, however, you seem to miss the reality of life. When you have a child, you both assume and expect it to grow over time. When you grow a plant you expect growth over time. When you start a business you also long for growth. Invest some money and you’d like growth right? So… did you not think that an airport would grow?
Stress not my friend, electric, low-emission and lower-noise aircraft are coming very very soon.
Seriously! electric low emission low noise aircraft – what fantasy world are you living in? Even if (very optimistically) that’s the case the number of amateur aircraft enthusiasts with very noisy aircraft are extremely annoying and highly polluting (2 stroke engines will do that). The increased risk of any aircraft accident over residential areas would be catastrophic. But the point is that the cost of allowing aircraft in this relatively clean quiet area is too high. Just for the convenience and exploitation of a very small number of people. Limitations need to be enforced and aircraft type need to severely curtailed, for the peaceful enjoyment of the residents, the only exceptions should be emergency aircraft.
It’s apparent there is opposition not only to the extension of Warnervale airport and the obvious increase in the number of aircraft that will be circling our roofs (I really don’t know what’s so fascinating about them) but also to the already existing number of light aircraft that find our roofs so intriguing. For those that like to contradict others points of view unless you live in areas where these light aircraft continually meander – looking at our roofs! then you really shouldn’t be offering an opinion. I understand the council administrator has now deferred the airport upgrade decision to the council that will be newly elected in September. That is an opportunity to organize possibly a Facebook group that can assist any prospective councillors in deciding that our once quiet unpolluted coast does not need an airfield that benefits just a few people who own private planes. I know numerous complaints have been made to Council, the Aero club and Air Svs Aust. but the daily noise continues. I think it’s very arrogant of these private aircraft owners to put their personal desires ahead of a large number of others that already subsidies their airport by almost $10,000 each week from our rates!
We are experiencing a “hoon” pilot near the Wanervale school where this pilot with one of the loudest plans we have ever heard is doing low acrobatic flying. This is ridiculous. This airport is wasting our tax money and what we get are “hoon” pilots with zero consideration for the residents in this area. Something must be done.