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> Then why did they claim it was because of the airport? I think
> that _you_ have a problem. A _reading_ problem. James is quite
> correct, the park should not be claiming it is forbidding rockets
> because of the airport if the rocketeer is in compliance with FAA
> rules regarding launches near airports, as James himself noted with
> regards to another launch area near Chicago's O'Hare Airport, a
> _vastly_ busier airport than La Guardia.
let me point out that our site is 20 miles from O'Hare, and the 747s are at
3000' or more when they come over our heads. This site is TWO miles from
LaGuardia, where the planes would be only a couple hundred feet in the air.
It does make quite a difference. They would be so low that the local terrain
will hide them until they are right on top of you.
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> And furthermore the park authority is _not_ "the landlord" - it
> is a public agency tasked to provide management of the park and to
> make it's facilities available to _all_ users. If it has a problem
> with rocket flights then it has a responsibility to be forthcoming
> about what that problem _is_ so the _citizen_ who wishes to use the
> facilities has a clear and honest chance to _address_ those problems
> in a manner satisfactory to all. The problem here is not that the
As a landlord, the park authority must use some intelligence in managing
their assets. Until we learned that this park was 2 miles from an airport,
we didn't understand why they were such a pain. Now we do. You wouldn't want
a park to hold a rifle target contest, if a school were right behind it,
would you? I think Matt needs to find a different park, farther from the
airport. The park authority should be willing to offer some suggestions.
Again, contact the FAA, and ask them for suggestions as to where you might
fly that would not be in their way.
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