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This website is about spectacular airfields and the flights that link these places, starting with my home state of Tasmania. Any new information on an aircraft landing area is added to the OpenStreetMap (the open-source global mapping project). 

Hobart from the air, May 2020

 

New content

Date State
YBCG: Gold Coast 2021-11 Qld
YBAF: Archerfield 2021-11 Qld
YCAS: Casino 2021-11 NSW
YDPO: Devonport 2021-09 Tas
YMLT: Launceston 2021-09 Tas
VICVA: Victoria Valley 2021-03 Tas
STCKY: Stockyard Flats 2021-03 Tas
YAPO: Apollo Bay 2021-02 Vic
YMCO: Mallacoota 2021-02 Vic
ICENA: Icena (Musselroe) 2021-02 Tas

Notice

This website is intended as a guide only. Landing area status and runway lengths may be incorrect. Check all information before departure with private owners and operators and against ERSA/NOTAMS, and overfly landing areas as required. CAAP 92-1 requires that except in an emergency, the consent of the owner/occupier is required before a landing area may be used. Certified and registered aerodromes are subject to copyright by Airservices Australia and links are provided. 

Sources

Creative Commons

Base mapping data including topography, elevation (contours) and vegetation are sourced from theLIST (Tasmania), NSW Spatial Web Services and VicMap Spatial Data. Mapping is also credit © OpenStreetMap contributors and through the Leaflet Open Source library for interactive maps (see Leaflet). 

Google Earth views: Google, CNES/Airbus Data LDEO-Columbia, NSF, NOAA, US Navy, NGA, GEBCO Landsat/Copernicus TerraMetrics.

GIS mapping for this work is provided by QGIS.org, 2020. QGIS Geographic Information System. QGIS Association. http://www.qgis.org

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and Google Earth are used to provide a general perspective on terrain around an aircraft landing area. 

 

Climate and sustainability

The places, landscapes and environments that we love to fly to and visit are being compromised and degraded by climate change. Some landing areas and airports will also be impacted directly through sea level rise. Aircraft performance will also be affected by increasing temperatures. A carbon price with an emissions trading scheme, is the most efficient way to incentivise the market to reduce emissions. This would allow sectors that currently lack emissions reduction technology to benefit from sectors with a greater capacity to reduce emissions. Examples might include aviation purchasing permits from agriculture allowing this sector to increase investment in soil carbon or aviation purchasing permits that may help to support the accelerated retirement of coal-fired power stations. 

 

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