COM: Adelaide Airport Carpark & Pedestrian Plaza

[bm7500]

Yep if they planted the right trees and had good landscaping could look really good unfortunately the render shows only what
looks like to be a few gum trees planted here and there. Please not another Bush Land setting.

What is really lacking in that proposal is the fact they should have done something with moving the Vickers Vimmy
into a new pavillion in the courtyard.

I just realised that you are right. The original plan was to reloacte the Vickers Vimy into this area. Hopefully it will still happen.

Brisbane Airport have done a fine job of displaying the Southern Cross in a climate controlled hangar. See below.

[Professor]

From today

[Professor]

Photo from last night. The core seems almost completed - looking good.

[5dme]

As a comparison, the current ATC Tower here is a whopping 21m high. lol

Is that actually the current ATC tower?

You might find some interesting info and facts here:

http://www.5dme.net
http://www.5dme.net/atc.html
http://www.5dme.net/hot_topic-6.html
http://www.5dme.net/hot_topic-9.html
http://www.5dme.net/product_detail.php? ... resize.jpg
http://www.5dme.net/jpserver/view/Light ... trol_Tower

Regards
David
Team Leader
http://www.5dme.net

[AtD]

^ FYI, I almost deleted that as a spam bot post.

Nice site.

[5dme]

^ FYI, I almost deleted that as a spam bot post.

Nice site.

Apologies for just listing the links. Here is the rest of the info I did not have time to include in the previous message.


Image: Current Control Tower

Here is some info about the 3rd tower (current) located just NW of the intersection of rwy 05-23 and rwy 12-30.
*Built in 1981 as a "temporary tower"
*Stands 21 metres in height
*Replaced the previous tower on the old domestic terminal (as seen below)


Image: Tower 2 1957-1981
The DTB (Domestic Terminal Building) was demolished 2010-2011
The new tower is located just to the south of the old Domestic Terminal in the long term car park.. It does not occupy any of the same footprint of the old DTB.



Image: Tower 1 1955-1957

Oddly enough, the new tower being constructed is not far from the location of the original tower from 1955 which was just to the south where the current Gate J and security office is located.

Videos of interest can be seen here:
Interview with Airservices CEO Greg Russell about new tower: http://www.5dme.net/flash.php?f=greg-ru ... rvices.swf
Interview with John McArdle ALL about new tower: http://www.5dme.net/flash.php?f=JohnMcA ... erview.swf
Tower History by Nigel Daw: http://www.5dme.net/flash.php?f=new_tower.swf

If you have trouble with the links, try here: http://www.5dme.net/video.html


Controlled Airspace
Also, someone asked the question as to what areas Adelaide Tower and Adelaide ATC control...

Adelaide ATC controls the airspace out to 38 nautical miles from Adelaide Airport (Radar) and from memory (but don't quote me on it) above 4000FT directly above the field. After that traffic is handed off to (usually) Melbourne Centre or Brisbane.

Adelaide Tower is responsible for about 5-10 nautical miles (Visual) from the field. Adelaide Ground also operates from the tower to control all ground movements. This includes vehicles, personnel and aircraft that may enter aircraft traffic areas.


As per my earlier message some of the details on this can be seen at http://www.5dme.net/atc.html

Info and images from http://www.5dme.net

Regards
David
Team Leader 5DME.NET

[Wayno]

latest nearmap image from March 3rd.

control tower

[bm7500]

Thanks for your insight 5dme, very interesting indeed

[Professor]

Photo from yesterday

[bm7500]

CONSTRUCTION OF ADELAIDE AIRPORT’S ROAD WORKS FOR NEW MULTI-LEVEL CAR PARK PROJECT

The development of Adelaide Airport’s new multi-level car park and pedestrian plaza continues this month, with new road works underway to realign the airport’s road system to cater for the new development.

East-bound and west-bound traffic on James Schofield Drive will be affected from 6 April 2011, with temporary road diversions in place.
The Adelaide Airport multi-level car park and pedestrian plaza development commenced construction in February 2011, and the car park will open to the public in May 2012.
The $100 million project will more than double the size of the existing short-term car park, with five levels providing short-term parking for 2,000 public and car rental vehicles. The car park is expected to facilitate approximately 7,000 vehicle entries per day.

In addition to short-term parking, the new multi-level car park and pedestrian plaza will include facilities for rental cars, taxi pick-up, bus parking, food and beverage outlets and small retail outlets, The car park will be positioned approximately 50 metres north-west of T1 (Terminal 1). The pedestrian plaza is between the new car park and T1, roughly the location of the existing short-term car park.

While it is not anticipated the road works will affect any access to the terminal at this time, travellers and visitors to the airport are encouraged to allow for extra travel time.
AAL will be doing everything it can during the construction period to minimise the impact on customers. However, given the nature of the project, it is inevitable there will at times be minor delays due to the traffic diversions, or if customers are directed to the temporary car park.

AAL will regularly update its website to advise of anticipated disruptions to assist our customers as much as possible – go to http://www.adelaideairport.com.au.

[spiller]

just noticed this development now, dont look in this section a great deal. im interested to know; given that the airport is only 6 years old (?), why are they already adding developments? Was this due to a usual lack of vision or was this development always planned as part of the original intentions for the airport?

[iTouch]

^^ I think it was because they underestimated how successful the airport would be...

[spiller]

I dont undertsand how you can estimate the success of an airport? Surely an airport being either good or bad wouldnt dictate the amount of people travelling through it? If people need to/want to come to adelaide or go elsewhere on holiday/business, they are going to, regardless of what the airport is like...

I think it's a usual case of things being done on the cheap the first time around, with a lack of foresight, ala southern expressway. Nevetheless, its good that they are doing this now.

[bm7500]

The priority of Adelaide Airport Limited was to get the new terminal built, a terminal which was already much overdue. They had always planned to expand both the terminal and car parking in the future when the need arose.

Because AAL only lease the airport from the Commonwealth they need to provide a development masterplan of future planned changes & developments and this must first be approved by the Federal Transport Minister. These plans are freely available on http://www.adelaideairport.com.au and they give a good indication of future construction at the airport.

[Nort]

I dont undertsand how you can estimate the success of an airport? Surely an airport being either good or bad wouldnt dictate the amount of people travelling through it? If people need to/want to come to adelaide or go elsewhere on holiday/business, they are going to, regardless of what the airport is like...

I think it's a usual case of things being done on the cheap the first time around, with a lack of foresight, ala southern expressway. Nevetheless, its good that they are doing this now.

It's not like an AO situation where relatively new stuff is being demolished and replaced, it's just that it has been constructed in stages. The old terminal definitely needed an upgrade more than the parking did, so it got done first.