The aircraft noise is returning to the north of Darmstadt

• ofJens Joachim

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After the surprising suspension of the trial operation of the relocated departure route “Amtix short” and heading north, the old route between the Darmstadt districts of Wixhausen and Arheilgen will be operational again in a week.

The blue skies without contrails and the longer periods of rest with comparatively few aircraft taking off are what people in Darmstadt’s districts enjoy Arheilgen and Kranichstein I have really appreciated and enjoyed it since November last year. But that will be over in a week: there will be more in the north of Darmstadt Aircraft noise give.

Darmstadt: restart of the old departure route “Amtix short”

After the end of January that has been running since November 2020 Trial run the routing of the Departure route “Amtix short” between the Darmstadt district Wixhausen and the community Erzhausen had to be interrupted for safety reasons, the well-known route guidance will be used again from Thursday next week Arheilgen and Wixhausen put into operation. The city of Darmstadt announced this on Tuesday.

The interruption of the Trial run the German air traffic control had justified in January with the fact that it was in the area of Messel to unexpected deviations from the relocated Departure route that could lead to security problems if the number of flights at Frankfurt Airport increased.

Aircraft noise in the north of Darmstadt will increase again

Since the interruption of the trial operation, the aircraft taking off from the West runway in the south-east have been using the Departure route “Amtix long”that run along the Mountain road runs and only in the amount of Pfungstadt turns east. Airplanes that took off from the parallel runway system at Frankfurt Airport in the south-east continued to use the old route between Arheilgen and Wixhausenbecause this route represents an independent departure route that was not affected by the trial operation.

However, because most of the departures in the south-east take place via the West runway, the Aircraft noise increase accordingly in the north of Darmstadt, even if due to the Corona-Pandemic fewer aircraft take off overall.

Environment officer Akdeniz: the situation is “sobering”

Darmstadt’s environment officer Barbara Akdeniz (Greens) announced that the future situation was “sobering for those of Aircraft noise affected population ”. However, the city councilor assured that the responsible institutions are already “working hard on a new bypass of the Darmstadt city area”.

The city is committed to using the findings from the previous trial operation in the careful planning that is now required for a new one Trial route to consider. She was “confident that the experts will find a good solution for the problems that have arisen, which will provide relief and will also bring improvements for Wixhausen,” said Akdeniz.

Departure route “Amtix short”: New trial operation in 2022 at the earliest

According to the city, the German air traffic control system, which is responsible for the procedural planning of flight routes, intends to make a new proposal for the assessment of such active ones in late summer Noise protection measures to hand over the responsible expert committee within the Airport and Region Forum.

After an evaluation, other committees such as Aircraft Noise Commission and the affected communities are involved. In January the responsible institutions had another one Trial run prospect for 2022 at the earliest.

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