Small aircraft flying low over my condo
Living out here on Lake Osborne we hear the noise of helicopters flying overhead as well as planes flying low from the Lantana Airport that is adjacent to John Prince Park. We have had 82 crashes there since 1982. Just last year, a plane crashed into a mobile home park killing the pilot and someone on the ground. The single-engine plane, a Cherokee 180, was flying from Orlando to the Lantana area airport, just down the road from the crash.
One of our neighbors, Bill Coakley, who has a home directly across the lake from the Lantana Airport, has been fighting this for years. Now, to make matters worse, we have jet aircraft returning to the Lantana Airport.
The owner of Galaxy Aviation said that is what we residents should expect if we buy a house by an airport. Most of our houses have been around longer than Galaxy Aviation.
"The recent JET activity and the FBO's February email attempting to marginalize the problem with insults and ignorance directed at the public, has compromised the good relations and optimism which accompanied the friendly and respectful interchange with Galaxy staff when they arrived on the field," he said.
Bill further stated that "One JET inevitably means many more to follow. And that in turn means the possibility of mechanic schools testing jet engines on the field... possibly JET training schools on the airport who conduct their training over our communities."
He mentioned, "The seventeen years of daily and routine abusive non compliant training that had led to so much public unrest - he explained the AIP Grant scam and that if JETS were coming to LNA... there would be a storm of public unrest and introduced the topic of legal action that had been brewing."
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What we're also extremely concerned about is whether or not the County is pulling a fast one--allowing jets at the airport in conjunction with the recent construction at John Prince Park in anticipation of its desire for the arrival of the Atlanta Braves in 2019.
Lawn mowers can't (usually ) crash into your home and kill you. These are not new neighborhoods around the Lantana Airport.The Small planes are a part of our area's history.After all Lantana Civil Air Patrol is squadron NUMBER ONE in the whole country. So we're not Ludites, or Nimbys or whatever other name you want to call us.The HELICOPTERS and JETS ARE NOT part of our history or expected quality of life here. !!!! And greedy ,selfish people like Mr. Foreman ,with no concern for anyone other than his own selfish pleasure.need to be shut down. So sorry Mr. Foreman and your friends with dollar signs in their eyes, listen and understand a word that you obviously did not hear enough from your parents, "NO".
ReplyDeleteI'm so tired of people not following the rules. Everyone just wants to do what they want and screw everyone else. Rules are rules, follow them.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm really tired of government out of the sunshine. This is our elected officials trying to pull another fast one over on us for the Braves. The only thing they understand is money. So I will never vote for any tax increase to destroy our park and way of life. Vote against the tax increase and vote these corrupt politicians our of office. We deserve honest representation, not theft of public property!!
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