For regional airports such as Groningen Airport Eelde, rules apply for the use of the airport and noise standards.
At Groningen Airport Eelde (GAE) there were only a few violations in 2022. It concerned 3 violations in departure procedures and 2 violations in training flights. The Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate (ILT) has issued a warning to the parties involved. The airport also remained within the noise limits in the past year. This is stated in the ILT's enforcement report that was sent to the House of Representatives today by Minister Harbers (IenW).
Supervision of regional airports
For regional airports such as Groningen Airport Eelde, rules apply for the use of the airport and noise standards. There are also rules for flying over residential areas to limit noise nuisance for local residents as much as possible. The ILT checks whether GAE and the parties flying on it comply with the noise standards and rules. If this does not happen, the ILT can impose measures, penalty payments or fines. At the end of a year of use, the ILT draws up an enforcement report containing the results of the supervision. This report covers the period from 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023.
Violations
The ILT received 7 complaints about circuit flights (test, training or training flights). The Inspectorate investigated whether there had been a violation of the Conversion Regulation and the Aviation Act. This applied to 2 training flights; the flight school and pilot concerned received a warning. The ILT investigated 70 flights that deviated from the departure routes. The inspection found 3 violations regarding the correct flying of the departure procedures. The airlines that committed these violations received a warning from the ILT.
Other flights
In the past operating year, there were a total of 275 flight movements at the airport after 23.00:400. It turned out to be flights that fall into the category of rescue, relief or medical flights that require an immediate take-off or landing. These flights therefore complied with the rules. Furthermore, there were no unauthorized skydiving flights. Of the maximum 110 permitted military flights, a total of XNUMX have been carried out. She found no irregularities in the controlled military training and training flights, according to the inspection of living environment and transport.
