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My only objection is the proposed drop zones.
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The FAA and AOPA disagree with your objection and have gone so far as to publish their support of landing on airports as a suitable and appropriate way to integrate skydiving into an airport.
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I suspect that most of those posting do not know actually where those are.
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I would say they know exactly where our intended landing areas are. YOU posted them on this very thread.
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I have no vested interest other than overall aviation safety.
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Despite your extensive history as an aviator, you are not an aviation safety expert. You are certainly entitled to share your opinion, but it is not one of a safety expert.
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Since then I nave seen amazing progress in the technology and capabilities.
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You really haven't. If you had, you wouldn't be arguing your position. We could have shown you the amazing progress in technology personally, but the LAA keeps saying no to demonstration jumps.......wonder why?
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I have been right next to someone gently landing on a concrete ramp.
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Was that person a licensed and trained Instructor, like those of us that will be conducting the operation? I would bet you that they were not. Comparing Apples to Oranges again Bill........
I've googled "Student Pilot crashes" on the internet.......dozens of pages of incidents. No parachutes involved..... Should we ban student training at LCI. By your resolve, we should.
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Everything has it's place. The middle of the airport is simply not the right one for Skydive Laconia
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Did you even bother to actually read anything we submitted that you keep commenting on? If you think our intended primary landing area is the spot of grassy area immediately adjacent to the active runway, you are entirely incorrect Bill. We intend to land our parachutes on the grass closest to the hangars, between the hangar apron and the taxiway. Would we use the "hangar side" of that very large piece of grass between the runway and the taxiway periodically? Sure. But we'd be landing on the edge of it closest to the hangar, not the edge closest to the runway. It's how it's done all across the country at airports of similar size and traffic volume as Laconia.
Oh wait, I forgot according to you, we drift, we don't control our descents........yet you have seen the advances in technology personally........right.
But you know best of course, your protecting those that can't protect themselves......and continue, by leaps and bounds, to be the most vocal opposition to this proposal. A proposal that you now even state won't even affect you............although before up in this thread you wrote that you would be "inconvenienced" by us, having to wait for our parachutes to land. Your flip flopping AGAIN Bill........ Which is it, will we affect your business or not?
And "for the record" you continue to still ignore my questions: What economic stimulus and jobs does your aeronautical business bring to the area?
Blue skies to all and to all a good flight,
Tom