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Re: aircraft over national parks

Subject: Re: aircraft over national parks
From: Mike Feldman <>
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 22:26:26 -0600
Vicki Powys wrote:

> In Australia there are no clear cut regulations for control of joy flight
> operators who fly over our national parks.  There have even been joy flights
> using superseded military jet aircraft, where paying customers are zoomed
> along at supersonic speed to within 150 metres of the ground, with mock
> attacks on 'targets' such as unsuspecting park visitors who are camped on
> lonely mountain tops of the Blue Mountains National Park, west of Sydney, 
> NSW.  

Wow.  Sounds like you could use some stinger-style noise abatement.
Or maybe you could allow campers to throw carborundum confetti
into the air.


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