Air Corps SAR

Yes it did quite often.

Bristow is American now.

There is a new one , just finished , but not open yet , end of the summer maybe , ?

I didnt realise it was on top of a building but considering theyre short of green space i suppose its no surprise,

Its got to be over 20 years since they built over the old helipad

Still landing at Beaumont woods up to this year.

When do you plan to visit? Because that's the only way I can show it to you.

It is not yet open, but it's a raised platform on the old Staff car park.

A few thousand tonnes of steel and concrete disagree with you.

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I have no idea what point, if any you are trying to make now.

Helipad built, not yet in use. There for all to see. S92 unable to use it. Google maps not updated to show it yet.

I looked at SDCC website but it seems very limited - can't see anything about this issue.

I live reasonably close to Dublin Airport (within earshot of aircraft movments, depending on winds) and the number of nighttime deployments of R116 that I have ever actually heard is very small (and they often fly right over us if headed southbound). The aircraft doesn't go flying for training etc during the nighttime hours, to my knowledge.

Thanks for the link. I can assure you that I do notice the noise but you are right that people who are used to living in proximity to regular sources of noise tend to disregard them after a while.

Or just keep the SAR base where it always has been, in Dublin Airport…Everything you need is already there, right under your nose.

I never really bought that excuse…. plenty of European airports support heli ops while using multiple runways.

There are easily flight corridors put in place for this, also as Dublin is only going to be using the single depart runway for the foreseeable, it's easy to route traffic behind an end of a departing runway and out under and around arriving traffic on an arrivals runway (or simply wait to cross the runway, hover taxi and hold short of runway, clear across it in less than 10 seconds).Anyone who has been to Aberdeen will see this in use extensively.

They are trying to clear non-profit making elements to provide room for commercial expansion.

It's long been said that DAA would like to be rid of executive jet movements also. They can account for fifty movements a day, often park for days at a time and also the aircraft themselves are getting ever larger. The western ramp area that most now use could probably be better utilised but there's no alternative at the moment. I think the SAR base issue has to be looked at in this context. It's not a completely standalone issue.

They just highlighted the fact they're a pack of lazy f***s.

Roughly 1.5 busts per month currently. Using this as a basis for extrapolating future busts (forgetting Weston is a leisure/teaching airport, busts go hand in hand with these locations, and then comparing it to professional pilots).

They usually have 2 controllers there, similar to Solent Radar in the UK, which deals with roughly 100 busts per year, while deconflicting departing and arriving traffic from Bournemouth and Southampton, liaising with Farnborough, and coping with numerous private airfields and 3 military areas. My heart bleeds for them when they have to deconflict a helicopter from 2 or 3 aircraft in touch and go pattern.

They complain the wrong ref map was used, as the IFR "touches" their (not always active) R zone airspace.

Why isn't this highlighted for the numerous private jets in and out recently.

The same airspace is transited for mountain and some west coast ops, why is it not an issue now?

Majority of OPS are along the coast (i.e. away from Bal restricted airspace).

If they are that concerned, simply liaise with ATC over the phone before take off, contact Bal tower for direct deconfliction, or use Dublin tower to allow radar service around the restriction zone.

Bal Tower are notorious for not answering the phone though… "too busy"