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Sydney is one of the airports with runways close enough together that they require special training and procedures. Nothing like SFO though. Given how much Sy
by inferiorhuman 7y ago
Sydney is one of the airports with runways close enough together that they require special training and procedures. Nothing like SFO though.
Given how much Sydney traffic gets routed over populated areas at relatively low altitudes I can definitely sympathize with wanting a curfew. In fact the noise itself has a cute little term 'Marrickville Pause' because it's so damn loud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoYikXvnU6M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoYikXvnU6M
- s_Hogg 7y agoFor information, it's the "Petersham Pause" or "Marrickville Moment" :) There should also be the "Tempe Tumult" because you can basically reach up and touch one of the bastards at that stage. Flying around the states I always got the impression that things were a little rickety, that SFO vid is nuts though.
- inferiorhuman 7y agoAh, that's the one. I've lived more or less under an SFO flight path for ages and used to commute down 101 right next to SFO which gets overflown constantly. Sydney was a whole different world though. Just walking sitting on a bench in Enmore Park it felt like you really could reach out and touch one of them. Oddly enough about the only flight delay out of SFO I've experienced was SFO-SYD, a flight that gets delayed explicitly as a matter of course to avoid the curfew.
- s_Hogg 7y agoYeah, the fastest I've ever gone in a plane was due to something trying to make it to Sydney for curfew. Can really get nuts sometimes.