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While on the latest ASA clusterducks under the Electric Blue Harfwit - 

Also via the SMH:

Coding error sends extra jets over angry residents


By Helen Pitt
29 October 2018 — 11:39pm

A coding error has sent departing flights from Sydney Airport over angry eastern suburbs residents until the end of November.

Planes taking off north from Mascot’s third runway are being sent over Coogee, Randwick and Kingsford rather than the usual flight path further south over Maroubra, Eastgardens and Pagewood.


Sydney Airport changes: The temporarily suspended flight path, left, and the current situation.CREDIT:AIRSERVICES AUSTRALIA

Airservices Australia, the government-owned corporation responsible for aviation safety, said the problem was caused by a third party provider’s coding of flight path data into aircraft flight management systems. It said air traffic controllers would direct planes individually for take off while it undertakes “an investigation into the safety implications”.

“Airservices Australia is working with the third-party provider and airlines to identify and address the safety issues as quickly as possible to allow the flight path to be reinstated. It is expected this will not be completed until late November,” the corporation told local residents.

“There will be no other changes to noise sharing arrangements while this problem is investigated."

The change to the departure flight path began a few weeks ago and will continue until the end of November, totalling close to seven weeks.



A number of local residents have called the change “outrageous” given it affects residents in suburbs which are already impacted by planes landing and taking off from the east-west runway.

Randwick resident Paul Ireland said not only has the flight path changed due to the error by the third party provider, but planes were flying much lower than they usually do.

“This is increasing noise levels even more over an area which is already badly impacted by aircraft noise from two other flight paths," he said.

“This seems contrary to the promise of sharing the pain of aircraft noise across the city.

“They could have moved it further to the north over Clovelly, Bronte or Bondi so that people already suffering from aircraft noise did not have this noise increased but this would have affected people in the seat of Wentworth which is largely free of flight paths,” Mr Ireland said.

 
Don't know what EB Harfwit has on the rest of the Board et.al but what ever it is it has to be good because how can you explain someone being so inept and incompetent..
Example:

 
...stumbling from one clusterduck to the next and still siphoning huge taxpayer funded monies from the seemingly bottomless pit of the Onesky trough fund...  

MTF...P2 -