RWY30 and RWY12 flight maps for Hobart Airport
Dear Airservices Australia,
Good evening,
Could I please be provided copies of ALL publicly released ASA produced flight maps for Hobart Airport covering departing and arrival flight paths from January 2017 - April 2025.
This would include all flight maps produced for ASA's online content, ASA's Community Engagement Sessions, and flight path maps provided to other agencies.
Yours faithfully,
Cathy Minnucci
OFFICIAL
Dear Ms Minnucci
Thank you for your email below.
We would like to clarify the scope of your FOI request.
Airservices has published detailed information regarding the Hobart
Community and Industry Suggested Alternatives and the now archived Hobart
Airspace Design Review on its Engage website.
The Engage web pages include various links to documents containing Hobart
RWY30 and RWY12 flight maps covering departing and arrival flight paths
since 2017. The web pages can be accessed via:
o [1]Hobart Community and Industry Suggested Alternatives | Engage
Airservices (includes relevant documents from Oct 2022 – Nov 2024)
o [2]Hobart Airspace Design Review | Engage Airservices (includes
relevant documents from 2017 – April 2022).
Examples of documents include:
o [3]2017 Documents
o [4]Environmental Assessment - 28 June 2017.pdf (1.17 MB) (pdf)
o [5]Hobart Airport Changes to Arrival and Departure Flight Paths
Fact Sheet - September 2017 (1.92 MB) (pdf)
o [6]Hobart Runway 30 STAR Review Report - November 2017.pdf (2.9
MB) (pdf)
o Post Implementation Review (PIR) documents 2021
o [7]PIR Resources | Hobart Airspace Design Review | Engage
Airservices
o [8]Recommendation 4_Hobart RNP-AR Relocation (published Nov 2024)
Further to the above, please clarify whether the scope of your request is
seeking access to:
i. documents captured by the Engage web pages as referenced/linked above;
or
ii. documents that may have been released publicly (online or at community
engagement sessions) that are not captured or documented in the Engage
website as referenced above. Please include any additional information
to assist our understanding of the scope of your request.
Kind regards
Kathryn
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Dear MBX FOI,
Thank you Kathryn,
Appreciated your help in locating some of the information online.
Basically I was requiring maps of the actual departing and arriving flight path into Hobart Airport BEFORE all 2017 changes. This may only be a map or two??
I have also received confirmation from ASA that a map presented as March 2025 was actually the same Hobart flight path as 2019.
What is missing from this map is the international flight paths routes from NZ and Asia...as we already had these flights passing over our communities, but these flights seem to be on an ad hoc route.
So just to confirm, if you could supply the Hobart flight path maps prior to 2017 flight changes and the currently used 2025 flight path maps that include both international and domestic arrival and departure routes
Hope this will reduce the workload scope for this FOI request.
Yours sincerely,
Cathy Minnucci
OFFICIAL
Dear Ms Minnucci
Thank you for your response below, however, we need to further refine the
scope of your request please.
We have interpreted your revised request to cover:
i. the Hobart departing and arriving flight paths that were in place prior
to the flight path changes implemented in September 2017; and
ii. the current Hobart departing and arriving flight paths that include
both international and domestic arrival and departure flight paths.
If the above interpretation is correct, please confirm whether:
1. paragraphs i. and ii. of your revised request is seeking copies of
google earth images overlaid with flight paths (which you also refer
to as ‘flight path maps’ in your correspondence). For example:
2. If your answer is yes to clarification question number 1 above, please
confirm our understanding that:
a. Figure 1 illustrating arrival flights paths to runway 30 one
month prior to the flight path changes implemented in September
2017 taken from page 3 of the following report
[1]17-0122-BKT-HobartReviewReport.pdf_072bba732f2647f0ad0d99c32a358ae4
would satisfy part of paragraph i. of your revised FOI request;
and
b. Figure 3 on page 7 of
[2]YMHB_NewSIDS-STARS_EnvAssessment_28Jun17_webpage.pdf_839d13667d5d23a56b1ad5c62ebffb5c
that depicts arrival (in red) and departure (in green) flight
paths in February 2017 would satisfy all of paragraph i. of your
revised FOI request as Figure 3 ‘depicts the Hobart departing and
arriving flight paths that were in place prior to the flight path
changes implemented in September 2017’.
3. If your answer is yes to clarification question number 2 above, please
confirm the remaining scope of your FOI request is:
Requesting a copy of current Hobart departing and arriving flight paths
(i.e. google earth images overlaid with flight paths) that includes both
international and domestic arrival and departure flight paths
4. If the revised scope in clarification question number 3 above is not
accurate, please provide further information to assist our
understanding and to guide our document searches. Please also provide
a copy of or link to the March 2025 map referred to in your
correspondence below.
Kind regards
Kathryn
OFFICIAL