Mesa terminates pilot training program

JustWondering wrote:

For us, freedom loving Americans, the noise generated by aircraft represent the "sound of freedom." Love it or leave it.....

darwinsdog wrote:

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In the first place, the homes and farms and orchards and irrigation ditches in the Glade and along La Plata pre-date the Wright brothers ever having got their motorized glider to lift off, let alone the Farmington airport having been mislocated atop the little mesa right in town. And in the second place, many of those who built or purchased homes after the airport was built were still there long before Mesa Airlines and San Juan College decided that it might be a good idea to have student pilots mindlessly fly around in circles above residential neighborhoods, in cheap little airplanes that sound like they're powered by two stroke chainsaw engines.
Look folks, no one would have any objection to the pilot training program if it was conducted in a responsible manner. If students were being trained from a remote air field away from town, where the noise and risk didn't bother and threaten the safety of anyone, and in quality aircraft, there'd be no complaint. The whining exhibited by the handful of students and others who will no longer be disturbing the peace of thousands of citizens does nothing but put on public display the arrogance and selfishness of these few.
Face it, the Farmington airport may have been adequate to the aviation needs of the community back in the days of biplanes, when it was built, but it has long since outlived its usefulness and today is nothing more than a public nuisance and an anachronism. Larger planes don't actually take off from the Farmington airport, they simply fly off the edge of the mesa, where the runways end. If Farmington is to grow and have a future as a regional aviation center, a modern airport of adequate size and facilities needs to be built in a flat area well outside of town. This is the simple truth and those of you with selfish interests who protest otherwise display zero concern for the well being of others or for the community.

What the French Toast wrote:

How many Mesa pilots have crashed and burned? Just wundering.

darwinsdog wrote:

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I think that most of the regular SJC students think they're a bunch of Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses, since they dress like the folks who pester you on weekend mornings.

WalksWithBoner wrote:

I guess there will be no one to create excitement and suspense, like former Mesa student pilot Jeff Lewis did a few years back, crashing into the Farmington police department in his corporate 1920s Polish biplane trainer.

CrashTestDummy wrote:

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Not many, but a passenger plane flown by a pilot with cocaine seething through his veins crashed near Bayfield, CO killing several people including himself in the 1980s.

pilotsdad wrote:

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Ignorant people make me sick, they dress as professional pilots while at SJC for their classes you have no idea how the program is run go back under the rock you came from, do you know what dress for sucess is, my sons in this program and hes got a great future because of the great instructors there.

CrashTestDummy wrote:

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Not many, but a passenger plane flown by a pilot with cocaine seething through his veins crashed near Bayfield, CO killing several people including himself in the 1980s.

CrashTestDummy wrote:

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Not many, but a passenger plane flown by a pilot with cocaine seething through his veins crashed near Bayfield, CO killing several people including himself in the 1980s.