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Dropzones being run off the airport and other Issues..
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You can ask the people of Monroe GA, from what I understand they ran us off because they wanted more income from some other kind of business. Never really heard what the Defense Fund was gonna do. Whatever it was it was going to be too late from what I understood. Damn shame too I loved that place 20 mins from home and a great bunch of people.
kallend 1,621
QuoteQuotewhat kind of complains could and HAVE kept dz's from continuing running normal operations?
- Wealthy people who buy houses near an airport, and then suddenly realize that there are noisy airplanes operating at the airport. So rather than realize their mistake and move elsewhere, they sue the airport.
- Other airport users, like pilots, who prefer to have the place to themselves without skydivers punching vertically through their airspace.
- City commissions who consider skydiving operations to be more trouble than they're worth.
- Bad public relations from skydivers who run amok in town, streaking nude, driving drunk, etc.
- Nearby land owners who call the police every time someone lands off-airport on their property, and consider that a trespass.
You name it, someone will sue over it.
Roger Nelson avoided most of those problems by buying the land for building his own airport and DZ, along with adjacent lots which he sold to jumpers and DZ workers for their own homes. There's still one Farmer McNasty to the NW, but his land is quite a way from the landing area.
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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.
The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.
Unstable 8
QuoteThere's still one Farmer McNasty to the NW, but his land is quite a way from the landing area.
I think everysingle dropzone has a 'Farmer McNasty' - ours freaked out at students when they landed on his land and then put up an electric fence along our S. landing area -
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Richards 0
Some dipshit bought a large plot of land right next to Fraser Valley Skydiving and he built a large mega-house literally right in line with the end of the runway. You would think this genius might have figured out the implications of that, yet the first time the plane went down the runway straight at his house and took off right over it he came running over to the hangar screeching at the top of his lungs "demanding" that they not do that ever again. Not sure what happened to this brain donor in the end.
My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.
QuoteIs this why we donate to the Airport Access defense fund when we renew?
Ok, flame away as I probably deserve it for offering such an opinion without having the liberty of discussing the details, but please do not do this. The short story is that in a perfect example of "Airport Access Defense" our DZO was told by the USPA that his was a "tenant / landlord" case and nothing they could do, or even help with. My question is, what example of "Airport Access Defense" could not be considered "tenant / landlord"? What is the point of the fund?
Roger Nelson avoided most of those problems by buying the land for building his own airport and DZ, along with adjacent lots which he sold to jumpers and DZ workers for their own homes. There's still one Farmer McNasty to the NW, but his land is quite a way from the landing area.
While this takes huge sums of money to do it is the best way in the end. As long as you get full aproval from the local zonning before you build there will be little they can do to stop you once it is built. As for Mr. McNasty if the DZ owns some extra farmland around the landing area and then continues to lease it out to a farmer he will have a lot of friendly farmers around because they will all be fighting to rent the land from the DZ. I think SDC has some land they rent out now, and I'm sure the farmer who is renting it wouldn't even think of spouting off to anyone who landed off the DZ.
Land use in genneral is becoming a real problem in this country, skydiving is just a small part of it. People need to stop looking at open land as a potential development instead of a recourse that is totally irreplaceable.
kallend 1,621
QuoteRoger Nelson avoided most of those problems by buying the land for building his own airport and DZ, along with adjacent lots which he sold to jumpers and DZ workers for their own homes. There's still one Farmer McNasty to the NW, but his land is quite a way from the landing area.
While this takes huge sums of money to do it is the best way in the end. As long as you get full aproval from the local zonning before you build there will be little they can do to stop you once it is built. As for Mr. McNasty if the DZ owns some extra farmland around the landing area and then continues to lease it out to a farmer he will have a lot of friendly farmers around because they will all be fighting to rent the land from the DZ. I think SDC has some land they rent out now, and I'm sure the farmer who is renting it wouldn't even think of spouting off to anyone who landed off the DZ.
Land use in genneral is becoming a real problem in this country, skydiving is just a small part of it. People need to stop looking at open land as a potential development instead of a recourse that is totally irreplaceable.
Right - we just lost 2 local airports to development. Like we NEED additional strip malls!
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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.
The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.
And they say that someone crazy made a jump with a toilet bowl ... which 'landed' not far from the houses...
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