08-05-2009, 07:26 AM
I have a feeling that people who are so tolerant of the tour helicopters are NOT living directly under where they fly multiple times a day and everything comes to a stop until they pass by. There are tourist islands where overflights of the land are not permitted. They still get the tourism.
I like the example of the Cook Islands, which I have visited. First, the inter-island planes do not get to fly over the island. They do, however, still have a noise impact. These planes are necessary to connect the island to the world, so they have to fly. However, when the air carrier tried to add a Sunday route, the islanders said, NO, it's Sunday, a holy day, a day of rest, and it will be a day of rest from aircraft noise too. You can fly the other six days. Even though I don't consider myself a Christian (was raised as something else), I like that people who depend on tourism can still draw a line on the impact to their lives.
Of course on the Big Island it is just one segment ot the population that is impacted, so there's no need to care about those people, as long as you aren't one of them the money is GREAT!
I like the example of the Cook Islands, which I have visited. First, the inter-island planes do not get to fly over the island. They do, however, still have a noise impact. These planes are necessary to connect the island to the world, so they have to fly. However, when the air carrier tried to add a Sunday route, the islanders said, NO, it's Sunday, a holy day, a day of rest, and it will be a day of rest from aircraft noise too. You can fly the other six days. Even though I don't consider myself a Christian (was raised as something else), I like that people who depend on tourism can still draw a line on the impact to their lives.
Of course on the Big Island it is just one segment ot the population that is impacted, so there's no need to care about those people, as long as you aren't one of them the money is GREAT!