ORIGINAL: archerry
Hey Able....
I would like you to think about this with me.....
I am a land owner who's land is zoned for industrial mining... I run heavy mining equipment all day long. I have an open canyon area that a long time ago I told a group of modelers that they could go and have fun for FREE.... I have a son that is very much into dirt bikes.... I have a dirt bike company that offered me a good deal of money a year to set up a practice track. I allow them to build it at the end and about maybe 100 yards next to the runway which makes it hard not to fly over it especially during take off. Two more were build on top of a hill next to the runway and I'm allowing three more to be built, probably in the same canyon as the first and the modelers. Did I say that I am getting large amounts of rent from these dirt bike tracks.... Did I say that the modelers cut powerlines twice which I had to pay for the repairs and scared horses at a nearby ranch. Who is going to move?
And there is nothing wrong with that. So what is the problem here? Please simplify what you would like me to say on your behalf............
Ron -
The modelers wore out their welcome and will be moving.
Some flying fields are lost to noise disputes, some due to other causes.
This one obviously was lost to other causes.
Was it your point that some fields are lost to causes other than noise? If so, no argument. Sometimes it's due to 'progress ala bulldozer' and sometimes sheer stupidity and callousness on the part of modelers themselves. Most modelers I've run into are conscientious and considerate of their landowner benefactors. Then, there are unreasonable social misfits within the populace of modeldom. too. I know of an instance in my locale where a club president took an internal club dispute over a safety issue to the property owner for support for 'his side,' ending the club's tenure there post haste. We've seen a similar internal squabble spread to involving the property owner, AMA, and the denizens of this forum as it was fought in part right here.
When the problem is ignorance, sometimes I feel I can help and may give it a try. When the problem is stupidity I just throw up my hands.
Abel