Meeting and Petition for Pesky Helicopters

[JerryCarr]

One issue that I have heard mentioned in earlier references to the helicopter traffic has been missing from this thread so far. That is the fact that helicopter tour operators are supposed to pay the National Park fees for overflight. I remember reading in the HTH that the park authorities had actually threatened some sort of action if the fees weren't paid. Does anybody know if that was resolved? Bear and I got buzzed by a tour helicopter on top of Mauna Ulu once, and it was quite unnerving. Maybe the pilot wasn't expecting anybody to be up there, but they got awfully close. We thought we were going to get knocked off the mountain.

Cheers,
Jerry