06-26-2017, 04:04 PM
(06-26-2017, 02:07 PM)Bob_McBob Wrote: This is actually a big problem in Toronto. Sick Kids and St. Michael's have had to adjust their helicopter flight paths numerous times because of new construction, and a couple years ago they said there was basically no more room for adjustment and any further diversions would make their heliports non-functional. I'm not sure who actually officially handles the issue in Toronto though. There is a specified area around Pearson administered by the GTAA where special permits are required for construction cranes, but that only covers a small part of Toronto.
This seems weird. Airports as I understand it have well-defined flight paths around them and nearby development is restricted, in some cases severely, by the presence of the airport. I would have assumed that heliports would be the same as airports, except for presumably a different detailed shape of the restriction owing to the very different sort of traffic. I wonder what the situation is around Breslau airport? (ignoring the fact that it’s not a high-demand area for construction, so this is unlikely to be a big problem in the near future regardless)