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I had heard an aircraft passing over yesterday afternoon from Tullamarine and i just made out it was a large twin and grey through the cloud.I went to flightradar and it showed no aircraft so i assumed it was the RAAF A330.


Regarding aircraft curfews for major cities i think they need to be reviewed.Most of the curfews were implemented when aircraft had low bypass engines such as the 707,727.Engine technology has improved vastly and aircraft like the 787,A350 and A380 have a much lower noise footprint.While i still worked at Tulla the staff carpark was adjacent to the north south runway and i would often see an A380 takeoff and it was very quite.With the 787 and A350 even less noise.You would hear more noise coming from the Tulla freeway or Wesern Ring Road.Even though Tullamarine is curfew free i recently read an article concerning an action group against the building of a third runway and they stated that they did not want to hear thundering A380s disturbing their peace.Most takeoffs when using runways 16/34 are to the north and 9/27 are to the west over unpopulated areas.Its all politics in the end.