01-16-2017, 11:59 AM
Wow, that's quite a leap, equating an effort to quiet down tourist helicopters with TMT and the Super Ferry, AND implying tourists wouldn't come if there were no copters. What nonsense.
--this effort is to get the copters to fly over unpopulated land or the ocean instead of our homes, not to leave entirely.
--tour helicopters are only a small part of the tourist industry here. This isn't Michigan, and tourists don't come just for the copters. And the copter companies aren't feeding ME, just a few people that work for them. Yes, they pay taxes, but so do all of us who live in the flight path.
--it's very nice for you that the copters don't bother you. It is not nice for me that they bother me. Please don't try to say we should all share YOUR feelings.
--this effort is to get the copters to fly over unpopulated land or the ocean instead of our homes, not to leave entirely.
--tour helicopters are only a small part of the tourist industry here. This isn't Michigan, and tourists don't come just for the copters. And the copter companies aren't feeding ME, just a few people that work for them. Yes, they pay taxes, but so do all of us who live in the flight path.
--it's very nice for you that the copters don't bother you. It is not nice for me that they bother me. Please don't try to say we should all share YOUR feelings.
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Originally posted by AKpilot
Chasing off the Ferry, the TMT and now going after the Heli-tours? I was born and raised in a state that lost its ONE economic lynchpin....Michigan, the former Auto capitol of the Nation. Like it our not, Hawaii's one economic lynchpin is Tourism. You do not want to know what life is like in a place with no real economy. We get helis in Hamakua, quite a few, flying to look at Waipio and several large waterfalls nearby. I knew this when I bought and their noise is of not concern to me or my animals.
Don't bite the hand that feeds you; and please do research before spouting bogus claims. The Helicopters are turbine helis, and thus use Jet A. Not leaded fuel.
AKpilot
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