Special flight path safety checks will be carried out at 18 Queensland airports in August including Burketown, Century Mine, Cloncurry, Doomadgee, Mornington Island, Mount Isa and Normanton.
The Civil Aviation Safety Authority are conducting the checks to make sure instrument procedure flight paths at the aerodromes continue to be safe.
A twin-engine Cessna Conquest aircraft will carry out the low-level safety checks within an area up to 35km from each airport.
Local residents may notice an uncommon flying pattern, but this is to make sure obstacles are accurately marked on charts and no new obstacles exist. Obstacles can be towers, trees, masts or buildings that can be a danger to aircraft.
The Civil Aviation Safety Authority requires aerodrome flight path safety checks to be carried out every three years to maintain a high level of air safety at all aerodromes.
If poor weather or other factors do not allow the safety checks to go ahead on the planned days they will be carried out as soon as possible.
CASA has contracted the operation of the special check flights out to Corporate Air, one of Australia’s largest and longest established aviation services providers.
Derek Barry
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
