10-28-2016, 11:48 AM
Aloha fellow Punawebbers,
HICoP is a grass roots organization aimed at reducing the impact that tour helicopters have on our quality of life.
We have met with the FAA and the tour companies flight directors, and we have requested that they voluntarily fly offshore, similar to what’s recently happened in New York City;
http://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/...alRule.pdf
A delegation including representative Kai Kahele recently spoke to the tour company owners; they refused to work with the delegation to make changes that would ease the noise issue plaguing so many Hawaii Island citizens, stating that our representatives have no jurisdiction. The FAA says the pilots can do pretty much whatever they want.
Volcanoes National Park now leads the nation with the most non essential tour helicopter over flights. With the opening of the new Federal Inspection station in Kona, tour helicopter operations are expected to TRIPLE from 15,000 in 2015 to 45,000 a year by 2017. Counted once in the national park you can double these with back and forth over our homes.
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/sound/airtours.htm
Maybe you saw our ad on the front page of yesterday’s Herald Tribune. Now is the time to speak up. Please join us or talk to your representative.
We ask that the helicopters fly over the water or lava and not over people’s homes. I will be at Makuu Marketplace this Sunday from 11-1 to try and drum up more support.
Our web site http://hicop.org has a voting guide and a Gofundme site (the ads are not free), as well as a link to the news story that aired recently on KGMB. Please leave a comment if you like. Mahalo!
Please help restore peaceful skies to Hawaii Island.
HICoP is a grass roots organization aimed at reducing the impact that tour helicopters have on our quality of life.
We have met with the FAA and the tour companies flight directors, and we have requested that they voluntarily fly offshore, similar to what’s recently happened in New York City;
http://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/...alRule.pdf
A delegation including representative Kai Kahele recently spoke to the tour company owners; they refused to work with the delegation to make changes that would ease the noise issue plaguing so many Hawaii Island citizens, stating that our representatives have no jurisdiction. The FAA says the pilots can do pretty much whatever they want.
Volcanoes National Park now leads the nation with the most non essential tour helicopter over flights. With the opening of the new Federal Inspection station in Kona, tour helicopter operations are expected to TRIPLE from 15,000 in 2015 to 45,000 a year by 2017. Counted once in the national park you can double these with back and forth over our homes.
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/sound/airtours.htm
Maybe you saw our ad on the front page of yesterday’s Herald Tribune. Now is the time to speak up. Please join us or talk to your representative.
We ask that the helicopters fly over the water or lava and not over people’s homes. I will be at Makuu Marketplace this Sunday from 11-1 to try and drum up more support.
Our web site http://hicop.org has a voting guide and a Gofundme site (the ads are not free), as well as a link to the news story that aired recently on KGMB. Please leave a comment if you like. Mahalo!
Please help restore peaceful skies to Hawaii Island.