Ballina Airport - Introduction of controlled airspace

Search an address and zoom in to see its location in relation to the proposed flight paths.

Arrivals = yellow, departures = purple. The white line is for SID 1 comparison purposes and shows the current departure path. 

Each flight path is presented as a shaded 2km wide corridor, which is the range in which aircraft will generally operate (1km either side of the notional centreline).

Noise contours have been included for each flight path. These contours represent single aircraft event, maximum noise level (LAMax) contours – i.e. the maximum noise level expected during a single aircraft operation over a location. The inner most pink shaded area close to the runway represents locations where noise may be 70 decibels or higher, the longer green shaded area represents locations where the noise may be 60 decibels or higher, and the wide outer blue shaded area represents locations where noise may be 42 decibels or higher (i.e. low, but potentially noticeable).

Please read our Flight Paths factsheet for further detail about each of the flight paths.

This is a zoomable version of the comparison map on Page 11 of our New Flight Paths factsheet. Please allow some time for the map to load.

It shows the proposed Standard Instrument Departure (SID) and Standard Instrument  Arrival (STAR) flight paths overlaid onto actual flight tracks from October to December 2023. This map is for visual comparison purposes only and we are showing tracks over a three month period to ensure map visibility. 

Search an address on the top right of the map and zoom in to see its location in relation to the flight paths.

Purple lines = SIDs, yellow lines = STARs. Blue lines = arrivals tracks, pink lines = departure tracks. Thicker blue and pink lines indicate more concentrated operations.

Note the flight tracks shown are for aircraft flying according to Instrument Flight Rules (mainly commercial passenger aircraft), as these are the types of flights that will be utilising the proposed SIDs and STARs. Smaller training aircraft, recreational aircraft and helicopters will not use these flight paths and will continue to operate in a similar manner to how they do today.