Hey rjcii-

Since you are getting no where with the airport manager
and board, abandon them. They are paid and work for
a political type, generally those individuals prefer
not to get phone calls from angry constiuents. Turn
the club and their supporters loose on them, in a calm,
professional manner.


At 04:00 20 August 2003, Btiz wrote:
ouch rjcii... I did not realize you were at LaGrange...
I've been watching
that unfold.

Perhaps a phone call directly to Phil Boyer? just at
thought...

I feel your pain... we have similar situations developing
here, a new
airport being designed about 8 miles away will make
the current airport
unsuitable for soaring or many other operations, the
Instrument Final Appch
Fix, as designed will be right over the current runway.
The airspace will
revert to at least ClassC if not expand the current
ClassB.

The problem the county airport management faces, that
the current users of
the current airport must be provided for according
to the congressional
mandate approving the Bureau of Land Management Land
Sale, it is a 'sport
aviation field' and the county would be required to
build another 'sport
aviation field' in a location suitable (outside ClassC).
If we are not here
when the current airport closes, they do not have to
'take care of us'

BT

'rjciii' wrote in message
. com...
'BTIZ' wrote:

... then AOPA should be notified...


1. And if the local AOPA field representative happens
to also be the
Vice-Chairman of the Airport Board that allows such
misuse,

2. And if the AOPA HQ is made aware of this fact
and does not seem to
be concerned about any potential conflict of interest,

Both above items of which is the current situation
at the
LaGrange-Callaway airport in LaGrange, GA., where
the Southern Eagles
Soaring club made the AOPA aware of federal assurances
violations to
include restrictions to glider flying and refusal
to rent available
hangar space,

Then, please tell me what exactly do you think the
AOPA can do (as
opposed to 'should' do) about this or any other airport
assurances
complaint?

Speaking from personal experience, I think you'd be
very unpleasantly
surprised about how little support you'd actually
receive from the
AOPA, SSA, and the FAA on any such matters.

I'm reporting the unfortunate reality that one should
not assume, just
because one pays dues to the AOPA/SSA, that these
organizations will
readily become actively involved, when requested,
to protect a
member's 'right' to unfettered operation at public
facilities.

I have also learned that the FAA has no authority
(or willingness) to
enforce its own regulations, and the AOPA is unable
(or unwilling) ro
distinguish friend from foe.

--'It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive
a friend'.
-William Blake

--'We have met the enemy and it is us'. -Pogo