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Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 15:03:40 -0700
From: dfs <dfs@gateway.net>
To: Lancair List <lancair.list@olsusa.com>
Subject: Airports
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The message from Lloyd Dunlap re: The airport in Ohio that has
"disallowed" homebuilts should really get our collective hackles up (if
true - and no reflection on Lloyd meant by this - but it sounds like
somebody's blowin' smoke). If some jerkwater outfit can make such a rule
or ordinance, then we're all at risk. Could be the start of a real craze
by airports all across the US of A. How do you feel about having the
neatest, but unuseable, paperweight around if such a thing comes to YOUR
town?

Can you imagine having to check the airport data along the route of a
cross-country trip, say to Oshkosh maybe, to see if you're ALLOWED to
land and get fuel or a bite to eat? I thought such things as access to
airports fell under the aegis of the FAA anyway. I don't remember seeing
any such restrictions in the FAR's regarding homebuilts. Am I living in
a dream world, or what? What's next? No airplanes with less than two
engines? Four? Jeez!!!

If we ever needed all the alphabet groups involved with GA, this would
seem to be a prime example.

If anyone out there knows the name of the town or city involved, and if
this is not just a scary Hallow'een story, this sure ought to be
communicated to any and everybody who might be interested.

It seems the jerks nominally in charge (read "bureaucrats") will try
anything they want - even if illegal - and if nobody calls them on it,
they get away with it. These people need to get the equivalent of a
super wedgie to bring to their attention where their heads are buried.
Then they need to be jumped by the FAA, EAA, AOPA, etc.,etc.

Dan Schaefer
N235SP
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