ORIGINAL: Silver182
ORIGINAL: ghost_rider
FWIW, it is not only Jets. It is any RC related airplane activity at any Federal funded airport that would necessitate full or partial airport closure.
The ghost has it partly correct... airports are for aircraft activity only.. the Feds do not want to see airport operators spinning off point to find ways to make more money! This is not a new issue nor is it aimed at R/C aircraft or Jets.
Here in Colorado a several years back we had an airport operator that discovered he had a car race track ready made.. or at least the race car enthusiasts discovered it... anyway you can see that if an airport owner operator is having hard times making it with airplanes why not open it up to anything that pays. Can you all see what could happen to many little airports across our fine Country..
I believe the non-aircraft usage hat trick is pulled out when either the locals or the Feds don't want
"it" to happen! The Feds on the other hand will pull the non-aircraft usage trick out of the hat when they can see the local airport operator is getting out of hand..
Lee H. DeMary
AMA 36099
Edited because of the Quote killer thing
EXACTLY.
The feds do not want to put money into an airport, then have it closed every saturday and sunday for a flea market. There are any number of ways around this, and this particular Ozark incident was handled VERY poorly.
I'm not getting into details, but certain people who are not even modellers created a bad situation. They did it because they wanted the MONEY that they think the jet events will bring in. Almost nobody who has posted here has any idea of what they are talking about, either about WHAT happened here, or about FAA policy, or about the "memo" that was sent, or the implications of it...this whole incident has to be in the top ten RCU "complete BS" threads, containing about 95% pure nonsense. Never heard such crap. And in spite of incredible evidence to the contrary, people just keep spreading and enhancing dumb rumors. What's the point? Belive all the BS you want to beleive, I'm outta here.