I’m pleased that Catherine King, the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government has provided an update on radio on Thursday that further information on the flight paths will be released in June this year.

I thought it useful to provide Gazette readers what the Minister said:

“We're also wanting and developing a noise tool so people can get a really good sense about just exactly how affected or how not affected they are going to be.

I think if you just put a flight path out, you don't actually get all of that detailed information. It's obviously an environmental effects statement process that the flight paths have to go through.

So we're looking a little bit later this year. It's taken my department a bit longer than we had anticipated to get some of that right.

They've had trouble accessing some of the simulation machines that they needed to actually test some of the flight paths.

So, we want to try and do that absolutely as soon as possible.

I know how anxious people are to see that, but I also want to make sure people have got as much information to inform themselves to make submissions to the environmental effect statement process as they possibly can.

Rather than just putting them out without any further information.”

I’ll continue to raise flight path and noise concerns of Blue Mountains residents with the Minister and provide updates as information becomes available.