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However, it amazes me that anyone could object to the Noonans' presenting their case in an upfront and transparent manner.
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For all the free thinkers out there like you that want facts and transparent education, there is still a small handful of people up there that are absolutely opposed to our dissemination of factual information. Unfortunately many of them hold elected positions, so they control the process.
These are the people that denied our repeated offers to do a demonstration skydive into the airport to show the LAA and the local town officials how effectively we could integrate into the daily ops of the airport.
These are the same people that refused to accept our offer to meet with the City Council of Laconia and Gilford Selectmen earlier this year.
Why, you ask?
They know that in both scenarios we will prove beyond any shadow of a doubt that we can integrate efficiently into the airport.
And TRUST ME, they do not want YOU the public to know that. They have made every effort to keep you the community, the primary stakeholders in this process, in the dark to as great an extent as possible.
And why is that? They believe that the less you know, and the less facts that are made public, the easier it will be for them to create an uneducated hysteria.
Mr proof?
To date, no one, literally no one on their side has been able to produce any insurance policy to suggest jet insurers won't allow jets on the airport if we are operating. Yet, Selectman Hayes wants you to believe that. He put it in the paper to scare you.
Remember our first meeting with the LAA in 2008 where the local pilots all showed up riled up? A month prior we submitted a VOLUME of data to the airport manager, but when she sent out her email only a week prior to the meeting telling the locals that outsiders were coming up with an entourage to request to open a skydiving operation, she OMITTED that she had an enormous amount of factual information for them to study beforehand.
And that's the airport's definition of "transparent".
If those in power give us a venue to provide indisputable facts to you, the community that the airport is bound to serve, they would no longer be able to play on your fears and lack of knowledge, and that is their last option at this point. They have no other reason to prevent us from spreading the truth and educating them.
The good news though, is that thanks to Mr. Hemmel, we have this wonderful venue of free speech here on
www.winnipesaukee.com and we have forwarded the link to this forum around the country and to pretty much every agent of the FAA we have worked with.
Our cause, and more importantly the unfair treatment we have received, has been forever recorded here on the forum for the world to see. So while your local civic leaders may continue to ignore our request to educate, in their hopes of keeping you in the dark, thanks to Mr. Hemmel, we have a spotlight set on the truth and facts in this process so the community can receive the facts and evidence you are rightly deserving of.
As we now approach 42,000 views, it is safe to say, your getting the facts. And that is the best thing we could ever have hoped for.
Blue skies to all and to all a good flight,
Tom