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Juan Jimenez wrote: wrote in : rip wrote: visit this website http://www.gadefensefund.org/ and make a donation if you can. These folks are almost single-handedly fighting the spreading NIMBY syndrome that has pilots being PERSONALLY sued for flying legally. If AOPA feels as strongly as the proponents, then AOPA should raise the money and take over the legal defense. Absent that, I have to really wonder. This is not an AOPA fund, this is a general and sport aviation fund. AOPA is in fact helping to raise the money by doing what rip is doing, getting the word out. Rather than wondering, read the material on the web site! Juan I read the AOPA editorial. It dealt with the size of N numbers and Boyer's view that it increasing the size of numbers would make noise suits easier. Boyers article did not deal with the specifics of any noise suit or fund raising event. I read some of what is on that rather self-serving web site. I couldn't get through it all nor was I so inclined. I don't do well with UFO web sites or TWA Flight 800 evil plot web sites either. Repeating myself: if AOPA very specifically endorses this particular fund then the effort would get my attention. |
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wrote in message ... Juan Jimenez wrote: wrote in : rip wrote: visit this website http://www.gadefensefund.org/ and make a donation if you can. These folks are almost single-handedly fighting the spreading NIMBY syndrome that has pilots being PERSONALLY sued for flying legally. If AOPA feels as strongly as the proponents, then AOPA should raise the money and take over the legal defense. Absent that, I have to really wonder. This is not an AOPA fund, this is a general and sport aviation fund. AOPA is in fact helping to raise the money by doing what rip is doing, getting the word out. Rather than wondering, read the material on the web site! Juan I read the AOPA editorial. It dealt with the size of N numbers and Boyer's view that it increasing the size of numbers would make noise suits easier. Boyers article did not deal with the specifics of any noise suit or fund raising event. I read some of what is on that rather self-serving web site. I couldn't get through it all nor was I so inclined. I don't do well with UFO web sites or TWA Flight 800 evil plot web sites either. Repeating myself: if AOPA very specifically endorses this particular fund then the effort would get my attention. My feelings also... -- Dan D. AOPA 3616944 / EAA 696326 http://www.ameritech.net/users/ddevillers/start.html |
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Juan Jimenez wrote: This is not an AOPA fund, this is a general and sport aviation fund. AOPA is in fact helping to raise the money by doing what rip is doing, getting the word out. Rather than wondering, read the material on the web site! I know, and that makes it have at least the appearance of being subjective and self-serving. I pay AOPA to help me decide about such issues. All Boyer commented about was large N numbers making noise suits easier. Flying at conservative altitudes and having AOPA legal insurance seems the best investment for most of us. |
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On 16 May 2004, Lou Parker wrote:
Let me see if I have this right. Someone is worried about hearing an aircraft 1000's of feet above them for 10 seconds, but it's okay for the icecream man to play the music from the sting for 2 hours every afternoon in my neighborhood. My sympathies, Lou. My home is near Bradenton/Sarasota airport, under the pattern actually. We must fly below 1600 feet when departing per Tampa/McDill AFB control. At night, I am jarred from a sound sleep whenever an airplane flys over. I am also bothered by a loud Harley Davidson at full throttle at 3:30am (must be closing time). I wonder that any pilot is so inconsiderate, to offend their neighbors, perhaps millions of them, in order to go somewhere in the middle of the night. But, they (we) are, often enough. When you reach 55 years old, you can move into a senior park here in Florida. No ice cream trucks George Graham RX-7 Powered Graham-EZ, N4449E Homepage http://bfn.org/~ca266 |
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