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Via AOPA Oz: 11/05/21

(Also via the AP blog: https://auntypru.com/sbg-9-05-20-of-ridd...nanswered/ )

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AOPA Australia
AOPA AUSTRALIA FACEBOOK LIVE - MOORABBIN AIRPORT
6PM, TUESDAY 11TH MAY 2021

AOPA Australia warmly extends an open invitation to all aircraft owners, pilots, aviation businesses and industry supporters to attend our LIVE Broadcast Event at the Flight Deck Bar, starting 6:00pm to 7:30pm Tuesday 11th May 2021.

The AOPA Australia LIVE Panel Discussion will provide local aviators and stakeholders with a unique opportunity to provide their views and perspectives regarding the recently published Preliminary Morrabbin Airport Masterplan, which will see further reductions in aviation infrastructure at the airport.

Viewed by thousands of aviation industry participants, leading government and departmental representatives, state and federal politicians along with mainstream television and print-media, this is a great opportunity for those directly impacted to be heard.

AOPA AUSTRALIA PANELISTS:
Mr Benjamin Morgan, CEO AOPA Australia
Mr Sean Runacres, Medical Director AOPA Australia
Mr David Hooke, Treasurer AOPA Australia

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Plus a FB comment from Sandy...

Politicians will need to be influenced if the plan is to be stopped. They should be persuaded that the airport use must be protected from both State government and Commonwealth perspectives.

Airports, like roads are the essential nodes for access to the aerial super highway to anywhere in Australia. The airport and aviation use is vital for much more than simply direct employment on the airport. For example the services provided, such as training which could  be some thousands of people per annum, and include new instructors who may find employment in other parts of the country.

Similarly maintenance personnel and as a centre and hub for the various specialised skills based aviation businesses that should be thriving in an airport with the size, numbers and activity that will only be found in proximity to a major city.

In addition, transport both scheduled, like King Island, and on demand charter, business and private flights, in other words a great variety of roles which are not easily quantified. These activities are important for more thousands of citizens, and the general well being, part and parcel of a developed and technically advanced Nation.

As a sign of the lack of logic in the planned alienation of even more airport land, we have adjacent golf courses protected by the State government for the use of a very small minority but the Commonwealth is giving up precious and irreplaceable airport land which is taken up by non aviation uses because of pricing, making money for one private company. 

MTF...P2