All About Light Sport Aircraft: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Ultralight pilot buzzes Statue of Liberty

"aviation is much more about courtesy than it is about rules per se." --Helen Woods

Helen, very true words. The way to keep rules from being written in the first place is to use our heads a bit. Personally, I found the 500' bubble to be a bit overly restrictive and very much enjoyed the freedom of the helicopter. But with freedom comes responsibility, and a recognition that other people have freedom as well. They want to be safe and free from noise. Using one's head can go a long ways in establishing good will, and your description of how to do it is spot on. Thanks. I'm glad we now have the same rules as helicopters, but the way to keep the rules as written is to use them intelligently.

Jim

From: Helen Woods

Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 5:33 AM

To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com< /A>

Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Ultralight pilot buzzes Statue of Liberty

I must totally disagree with this statement. While the pilot in
question may not have broken any rules, I know that I for one teach my
students that aviation is much more about courtesy than it is about
rules per se. He broke several rules of courtesy and continuing to do
so, is only going to reflect poorly on all of us.

There is no difference in my mind between what he did and selecting a
church on a Sunday morning as a spot to teach your students turns around
a point. It's perfectly legal but is it the right thing to do? And if
the pastor were to lodge a complaint about his sermon be drowned out by
the whine of a Rotax would it be the right thing to do to send more
people over next Sunday there to make sure he didn't get his way?

Use some common sense here guys. We have one of the best aviation
systems in the world here in the US and really are minimally regulated.
The way to keep it that way is to make sure that basic courtesy remains
and integral component of our decision making process.

Helen

On 6/2/2010 1:26 AM, Michael Huckle wrote:
> Now the real important thing, is that he makes the same flightagain to
> morrow, and the next day. (or on any day he has free to fly)Otherwise,
> the complainer will have achieved his objective......"I got rid of the
> ultralight flying in my air-space!"
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
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