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Grand Canyon overflight proposal
You are only thinking of the visitors centers, where it is not peaceful
(except in the dead of winter). But there is much more to the Canyon than that. There are countless assessable areas where one will not encounter another human being in a day. The sound of quiet is amazing, particularly when combined with the view, and aircraft noise is unwelcome. When you add up all these places, there are a lot of people enjoying them. Peter Duniho wrote: To me (as I mentioned in a different post), the Grand Canyon is simply not where you go for "peace and quiet". |
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"RomeoMike" wrote in message
news You are only thinking of the visitors centers I am not. Crowds disrupting the natural peace and quiet can be found in many other areas. It is simply unreasonable to expect one to find peace and quiet in a destination as popular as the Grand Canyon. There is no shortage of truly peaceful and quiet places in the US where people seeking that can go. Trying to turn the Grand Canyon into that is not reasonable. Pete |
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May be unreasonable to you, but I visit such places regularly.
Peter Duniho wrote: It is simply unreasonable to expect one to find peace and quiet in a destination as popular as the Grand Canyon. |
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Here is my take, having been to the Canyon three times in the last ten
years... - Ban all private vehicles, as is done in Denali. Air pollution is at an all time high in national parks such as Yellowstone, GC, Yosemite. Why is the no-aircraft noise group not up in arms about the harmful chemical pollution of the air in our national parks? - The park service just opened more permits for rafters through the canyon. Given the delicate sites on the river, permits should have been decreased, using the logic of the no-noise supporters. - Who is funding the anti-aircraft noise drive? Follow the money. The outfitters and campgrounds surrounding the park, most likely. The air charter flights are based miles away, they don't contribute to the local economy. |
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It is simply unreasonable to expect one to find peace and quiet in a
destination as popular as the Grand Canyon. There is no shortage of truly peaceful and quiet places in the US where people seeking that can go. Trying to turn the Grand Canyon into that is not reasonable. It is possible to drive ten (or 50, or 100) miles out of Iowa City, on a beautiful late summer day, find an unused dirt road, park your car, and walk deep into a corn field -- just like in the movie "Field of Dreams". You may then sit down in the blessed shade of 10-foot tall corn, open a cold pop, and listen to the wind blowing in the tassles. For those brief, wonderful moments, you will hear the blood pumping in your veins, and not much else -- and you won't have to interact with anyone. You will, in fact, be surrounded by 5000 square miles of corn, in absolute, complete isolation. The view isn't great, but it's wonderful, nonetheless. But I wouldn't be so foolish as to demand that kind of auditory experience at one of the most popular national parks in the world. How rude! (And what's REALLY amazing, and sooooo typical, is that overflight opponents are trying to frame the debate, and pervert the argument, so that anyone who opposes them looks rude!!) -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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"RomeoMike" wrote in message
... It is simply unreasonable to expect one to find peace and quiet in a destination as popular as the Grand Canyon. May be unreasonable to you, but I visit such places regularly. "Such places"? Meaning what? You cannot find peace and quiet in a popular destination. The two are mutually exclusive. If you find peace and quiet, then by definition you are in a place that is not popular. Pete |
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No, I wasn't overlooking this issue. As a matter of fact
this would be the issue. Keeping the price high would cut down the number of overhead visitors. Businesses would not go out of business because they don't have one currently. If you didn't limit the days or time, everybody with 41 hours would be over the canyon every minute of every day. Make it expensive, it's expensive go by boat, With boats there are only so many permits per year and it works. Lou |
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Grand Canyon overflight proposal
Places like Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Yosemite,
etc. are just one step away from being as bad as Disney Land. To argue that aircraft, of all things, are what are ruining the peaceful experience is just ridiculous. Perhaps at the visitor center, but you go out a ways and you can find peace and quiet. There is a self-filtering going on - those who want to experience peace and quiet badly enough can do so. It involves getting away from people, and that is what the national parks are all about. Alas, the hoi polloi don't know the difference, and stay at the visitors' center and think they've been to Yosemite. Those that care, hike away from the crowds and get to see the park the way nature intended it to be expereienced. (*) It's not meant to be easy, otherwise they'd put a freeway through it. Jose (*) ok, a little poetic lice... er.. certificate. -- The price of freedom is... well... freedom. for Email, make the obvious change in the address. |
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Meaning a place within the boundaries of the Grand Canyon National Park
from which the canyon itself is visible and where you are unlikely to encounter anyone else, and if you did encounter another person it would be easy to move off away from him and enjoy solitude. I never said it had to be popular in the sense of a lot of people being there. I just said there are places in the Grand Canyon that are beautiful, quiet and without people. Is that plain enough? Peter Duniho wrote: "Such places"? Meaning what? |
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