It's Class D airspace, so hopefully the tower can keep folks in line at/around the airport, though it may be a harder day's work than they're used to.
Pretty airport BTW, http://www.airnav.com/airport/SUN
Posted on 07/02/2005 5:06:05 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Gee, sounds like another little guy to me...
In other words the the liberal media is causing more "global warming" in one weekend that 100,000 of us will cause in a lifetime.
Irony here?
It's Class D airspace, so hopefully the tower can keep folks in line at/around the airport, though it may be a harder day's work than they're used to.
Pretty airport BTW, http://www.airnav.com/airport/SUN
Missed that it was the airport manager that was ticked off. I'll take back what I said about "hopefully the tower can keep folks in line" in my last post. I hope this SOB is up all night wondering where planes can park, which limo is Oprah's, and otherwise picking all of the red M&Ms out of Celebrity X's complementary bucket.
Sounds like he wanted to us the FAA to arrange it so that the celebs could have the airport to themselves. At the same time, he's calling charter pilots 'well-to-do'. Wonder if there was anything in it for him....
AWWWWWWWWW!
"Do you know who I am?" bump.
The fewer the slots made available, however, the more likely that professional pilots (viz. charter, corporate) will get those slots.
An airport manager's wishes don't necessarily correlate to the FAA mandates or historical experience, that is, safety guidelines.
From scant information in the article, it sounds to me as if the FAA is serving the public interest here. (Whoodathunkit?)
HF
Sounds like a heliport business opportunity to me.
Good point!
That little gem caught my eye too.
Bump!
""This isn't about the little guy, it's about the guy who's hired to fly someone from Las Vegas to Sun Valley on short notice and who wanted to make sure he still got a paycheck," Baird said. "
Another commerical snob who thinks private pilots should take a back seat to commercial tickets. We meet a few of these from time to time. This guy should be fired and banned by the FAA from running an airport for advocating the violation of FAA rules and regulations.
Everybody takes their turn in the aircraft world. I remember flying into Dulles airport in a Piper, with a huge 747 waiting on the taxi-way for me to get down and off the runway before it could take off.
Hah! Had a similar situation here in Daytona a few days ago. Had a Delta Commuter with three other multi-engines behind him, waiting for my 172 to land. Nickel holding up a dollar. Had to smile.
THANKS. :D
My response to that is always "Yes, you're an a$$hole."
Now that is the appropriate response!!
The controllers are all for it, and the line pilots are usually grateful.
Corporate and charter pilots are usually good guys, and 90% plus of the time, their pax are, too. Just cause they have money (the pax, the drivers are distinctly middle class) doesn't mean they're bad people. They're not usually even Democrats, if they actually earned the money; only if they inherited it or got it in some kind of windfall or shady deal and feel guilty about it.
On the other hand airport managers/board members/FBO owners have a very high percentage of weirdos among them.
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