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marinegunner(at)gmail.com
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 Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 9:59 am Post subject: The Closing of Realito (L67) Airport |
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I cannot remember who brought up the closing of Realito. In any case, I sent
several letters to AOPA, Congress, etc. and personally spoke with a couple
of people. There is a nice news story about this closing in the August 2,
2005 AOPA online newsletter. You can use the link located in the response
email from Chuck Smith of AOPA to open and read the article. Other answers
are in the same vain. It may be that the local pilots were not vocal and
dilligent enough in this fight over the years, I really do not know the
answer to that. Howver, I do know that we must all fight very hard to
preserve the freedom of flight. Even within this forum, dispite its main
purpose of promoting airplane building. I took out the message that I sent,
which generated this and several similar answers to keep this email fairly
short. If you want a copy of my very harsh email to AOPA, let me know and I
will send it via seperate email.
If you live within representative Lewis's Riverside district, write and tell
him of your displeasure and work hard at getting ride of him - make sure he
knows you are doing so. He is just like anotherMayor Dailey, a hinderance to
freedom.
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rsq2424(at)yahoo.com
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| Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 10:48 am Post subject: The Closing of Realito (L67) Airport |
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| Quote: | I cannot remember who brought up the closing of Realito. In
any case, I sent several letters to AOPA, Congress, etc. and
personally spoke with a couple of people. There is a nice news
story about this closing
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That was me who first brought this up, and boy it's a good thing I wasn't drinking anything when I read the comments about AOPA's fight or it would have squirted out my nose. While it may be true that AOPA lobbied behind the scenes in Washington, I can tell you with a good deal of certaintly that the local AOPA rep (whose name I can't recall) did absolutely nothing constructive to fight this closure, and and in fact was convinced it's not wise to fight it since we'd lose out anyway. And this is coming from someone (me) who attended most of the meetings, and personally called this individual to discuss the situation.
| Quote: | It may be that the local pilots were not vocal and dilligent
enough in this fight over the years, I really do not know the
answer to that.
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A small part of that is true, but only a very small part. Most of us pilots were against the closure (based on the comments I heard at the meetings), but there are a few of the larger business owners & operators on airport that aligned themselves with the developers. Why? Because they are being lured by promises to reloacte to a better facility (San Bernardino). So, the selfish interests of a very few have affected many. It's true that the City of Rialto has not been very active in maintaining the airport, and in fact, they have totally mismanaged the facility (the existing airport manager, if you want to call him that, is totally incompetent). But closing the airport isn't the only solution -- why not privatize it? Or maybe the development could co-exist with the airport.
| Quote: | From the article: "...the plethora of area airports. Ten other GA airports are located within 20 nm of Rialto..."
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Talk about a misleading statement. I live out here, and try to find a hangar at one of those plethora of airports. There may be that many fields out here (although at least one of them is an international airport -- not friendly to GA), but there are also millions of people in the LA basin. Also, 20 miles drive in LA is not the same as a 20 mile drive in Iowa.
Anyway, it's a done deal and nothing can be changed at this point, but the poster was right when he said to be sure to vote out politicians that make inane decisions like this one.
Mike Fortunato
601XL
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jhstarn(at)verizon.net
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| Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:29 pm Post subject: The Closing of Realito (L67) Airport |
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Thanks for the post. Rialto is closing because the City of Rialto is the
owner & wanted it gone. Pure & simple. They took it over to have better
"local control" and then ran it broke and then claimed it cost too much to
operate & maintain. It does cost too much to maintain IF you invest nothing
for years in upkeep, do nothing but pull out ALL the funds generated and
keep raising the rents.
The Town of Apple Valley tried the same thing a couple years back with APV,
the same "Local Control" argument. As soon as they found out that they would
NOT be getting extra tax & building fund monies they expected and our Save
our Airport campaign, they pulled out. They will try again, but with the
County of San Bernardino in charge we have wider taxi ways, new GA hangers,
CHP & SBSD hangers all since the collapse of the hostile takeover attempt.
"IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT" was our battle cry. KABONG Do Not Archive
Subject: Zenith-List: The Closing of Realito (L67) Airport
I cannot remember who brought up the closing of Realito. In any case, I
sent
several letters to AOPA, Congress, etc. and personally spoke with a couple
of people. There is a nice news story about this closing in the August 2,
2005 AOPA online newsletter. You can use the link located in the response
email from Chuck Smith of AOPA to open and read the article. Other answers
are in the same vain. It may be that the local pilots were not vocal and
dilligent enough in this fight over the years, I really do not know the
answer to that. Howver, I do know that we must all fight very hard to
preserve the freedom of flight. Even within this forum, dispite its main
purpose of promoting airplane building. I took out the message that I
sent,
which generated this and several similar answers to keep this email fairly
short. If you want a copy of my very harsh email to AOPA, let me know and
I
will send it via seperate email.
If you live within representative Lewis's Riverside district, write and
tell
him of your displeasure and work hard at getting ride of him - make sure
he
knows you are doing so. He is just like anotherMayor Dailey, a hinderance
to
freedom.
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marinegunner(at)gmail.com
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| Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 4:04 pm Post subject: The Closing of Realito (L67) Airport |
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Mike,
Great answer. I am going to cut and paste it to Phil Boyer, Chuck and
several others. If AOPA is taking our money and being the point
person/organization for protecting GA, they must make sure that every time
there is a fight, they choose the right people to lead and defend. Seems the
guy at Realito was not even close to being up to the task. Get rid of Lewis
and let him know why - it does not matter his affiliation or seniority - he
is a lowlife and I have called him just that in a letter. Do not use
profanity, but do not mince words in private or public. I hope you find a
good place for your future aviation endeavors.
DO NOT ARCHIVE
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Semper Fi,
Steven R. Hulland
CH 701, Amado, AZ
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| Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 6:20 am Post subject: The Closing of Realito (L67) Airport |
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| Quote: | Thanks for contacting AOPA and for your comments on L67. AOPA never gave
up the fight to keep L67 open. Congress slipped an amendment into the
huge
highway appropriations bill giving Rialto the authority to sell L67. The
following link will take you to the story:
http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsitems/2005/050802ca.html
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Aopa is the organization that takes our money and claims they have an extensive network entrenched on the hill to fight for our rights. You would think they would expect some crooked rep would slip in a amendment into a large bill to sneak something through. Looks like Aopa was asleep at the switch or worse yet, in bed with the crooks. Here is what I am going to do, since I am in control of my check book I am going to send in my renewel notice that Aopa sends out and then blame my wife for removing said check from the envelope. Ya gotta love equel justice........
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Thanks for contacting AOPA and for your comments on L67. AOPA never gave
up the fight to keep L67 open. Congress slipped an amendment into the
huge
highway appropriations bill giving Rialto the authority to sell L67. The
following link will take you to the story:
http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsitems/2005/050802ca.html
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Aopa is the organization that takes our money and claims they have an extensive network entrenched on the hill to fight for our rights. You would think they would expect some crooked rep would slip in a amendment into a large bill to sneak something through. Looks like Aopa was asleep at the switch or worse yet, in bed with the crooks. Here is what I am going to do, since I am in control of my check book I am going to send in my renewel notice that Aopa sends out and then blame my wife for removing said check from the envelope. Ya gotta love equel justice........
do not archive
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