[TheNoonans]

Hi Bill!

I missed not being able to exchange ideas with you on here, thank you for responding.

The Golden Knights in question were performing a stunt into a stadium. What they were doing was called CReW (Canopy Relative Work). It is a fringe discipline that has nothing to do with our skydiving proposal. Bringing a "2 Stack" into a Stadium is akin to an acrobatic pilot flying inverted 10 ft off the runway. When a stunt plane crashes, is that indicative of the safety of how you fly your plane? I don't think it is. Same situation with the example you posted. But thank you for sharing it, again you allow me the opportunity to share facts with the community.

Regarding Kentucky, there was an accident. Two skydivers collided in the air and one died. Same thing that happens when aircraft collide. Should we ban two planes over the airport at the same time? The facts, yes facts, are two airplanes collide with each other in flight about once every ten days in the US. If the Selectmen are that concerned with risk, then only one plane at a time should be allowed in the air over Laconia. And what about motorcycles? Should Gilford ban motorcycles and denounce bike week? People die doing all sorts of of things. The fact is skydiving collisions and fatalities are so less likely to occur than aircraft collisions and motorcycle collisions that they are not even in the same league based on volume.

I will be happy to prove my claims of economic stimulus, but not to you. You don't get that information Bill, sorry. Your not exactly unbiased here, ya know.....lol I will be happy to share that information with the Gilford Selectmen in a private or public forum. Perhaps you'll attend the meeting and share with the Selectmen the tremendous economic impact your aerial photo business has on the local community? I asked you awhile ago here, (and you never answered by the way), how many jobs does your aerial photography business create? How many people to you employ full time? I have answered just about every one of your off the wall fear inducing questions, how about doing me the courtesy of answering those two questions? What specifically does your business generate in the local community in terms of jobs and economic impact?

The day we open, that's eight new jobs. 3-6 months later, it will be up to 12 new jobs. Thats a fact.

As always, we wish you well Bill.

Blue skies to all and to all a good flight,

Tom

P.S.- I don't think I ever said that skydiving was "safe". You can get injured or killed doing just about anything these days. My point to any and all is this: Like Bill, you can look far and wide and find something on the internet that looks scary, and when taken out of context as a stand alone situation, it can look like whatever he wants to paint it as (like the Golden Knights example he just posted). But the reality of these scare tactic examples is simply this, these things have nothing to do with our proposal. We don't bring anything more or less risky to the airport than the flight schools or Bike Week on the highways. (Less so in terms of risk to be honest). And reading these scare tactic examples of Bill's keeps bringing me to the same conclusion about him and the minority opposition, and that is that they really have no idea of what we are proposing to do and what modern day skydiving really looks like. Every example that is posted to scare you just further illustrates the point. If you knew what I knew and let me share that information and facts with you, everyone would be on the same page and we would be happily co-existing with the two FBOs on the airfield.