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Old November 18th 06, 06:04 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,or.politics,alt.culture.oregon
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Default Hillsboro Air Show

Larry Caldwell wrote:

Airplanes fly over populated areas all the time, and occasionally one
crashes. Accidents happen. The best way of dealing with the problem is
to improve air safety, not move the airport to some remote area where
nobody will use it. The Hillsboro Airport gets a lot of traffic
precisely because it is so convenient.

If people want to live next to an airport, it's their business, not
yours. Caveat emptor. It's not like the existence of the airport is a
secret.



Usually airports are placed as out of the way as possible, and if they
must be in populated areas, the minimization of take off and landing
corridors passing over residential areas as much as possible is done.

But my comment was actually pertinent to the air show, that it's a
disaster waiting to happen, and that as such it should be relocated.
Another poster interpreted that to mean moving the airport, an idea I
got on board, mainly because Washington County is going to get a major
airport ala PDX sooner or later. The population there is going to
require it. I don't believe that the present Hillsboro location can or
will fill that need. They might as well start planning for it now.