FW: airport (4)
Fred A. Leistiko
Airport Manager
City of Kalispell
P.O. Box 1997
Kalispell, MT 59903
406-250-3065
From: tom read [mailto:trnyr@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 7:43 PM
To: fleistiko@kalispell.com
Subject: airport
I read the article in the paper about the airport expansion. There were
two quotes in the article I could hardly believe. One by Dave Hoerner
was to rebut the assertion that the city airport was only for those with
money. He stated that there were 30 people working there who were
hardly wealthy. The accusation is that it tends to serve the wealthy
who are obviously not the average Joe Blow in Kalispell who can afford
planes and or fly them. And now the rumored basing of private jets
there, which I had never heard before this latest round. Obviously not
local residents owning/operating those. We have Glacier Airport for
that purpose. And the quote by Scott Richardson about there not being
large jets taking off there-an idiot would know that wasn't true. Lear
Jets and the like are relatively small are horribly noisy and should not
be allowed to land and take off there either. Also his argument that
general aviation can't be done at Glacier Airport. What do Billings,
Bozeman, Butte, Missoula, Helena do about general aviation? I believe
they use their one and only airports for that purpose. Truth be known
it is the rude and inconsiderate pilots-not all pilots, who have ruined
the welcome of the City Airport. Several times recently, in the dead of
night some loud twin engine plane flies low right over my neighborhood.
Someone said it is FedEx, if not it is some other corporate plane, not
small. It goes on and on in spite of all the claims to be trying to
control the noise and danger problem. Recent rezoning has already begun
to erode property values in our area of Lower Valley Rd./Willow Glen.
Airport expansion that would create more noise, etc. will further
destroy it. Thanks, Tom Read
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