00:03David Lisiak has lived in Warramoo on the footsteps of the Blue Mountains for over four decades.
00:09It's just beautiful, quiet.
00:12The grandfather has always loved the serenity of his surrounds but now fears that will be a thing of the
00:18past
00:18after Western Sydney International Airport officially opened to passengers last week.
00:24It worries me because I've only just retired and my wife has just retired as well.
00:29We were looking forward to a nice quiet retirement and suddenly that might not be so quiet.
00:37The village is under the flight path and he's already starting to hear the noise that's only going to ramp
00:43up.
00:44In just over a year there'll be 250 destinations from Western Sydney Airport.
00:49The 24-7 airport has one runway which operates in both directions known as Runway 5 and Runway 23.
00:57Flights on Runway 23 arrive from the north-east and depart to the south-west, above the west and Blue
01:04Mountains area.
01:05This pathway will be prioritised during the day to minimise aircraft noise.
01:11When Runway 5 is used, flights land from the south-west and take off to the north-east.
01:16This new airport has also meant some minor changes to a handful of flight paths from Kingsford Smith Airport that
01:25came into effect in July.
01:27An air route connecting an airport to the wider airway system is not just a straight line in the sky.
01:34No option is perfect, so you always have to make some trade-offs.
01:39A reality that started to dawn.
01:42This期 planning is enormous.
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