Sure, recreationa aircraft cost no where near as much as GA to fly and maintain, but my gripe is with the continued closure of councill controlled airport to developers.
Im pretty sure most here have never been to the Evans head fly-in over the new year break, its not only a great weekend of flying, but a reasonably big tourist drawcard for the area, and yes, at least half the aircraft the regularly fly in are GA or Warbirds.
Most of the issue is with council intentions for the airport, they want it colsed despite it historical value, yet Narromine coucill has supported its airfield and the easter narromine flyin, the norther side of narromin is an airpark, with new modern houses and hangars, and the sother side has a nice new Aviation Museum, and come the flyin, every hotel within 50Km is booked out, restaurants are all booked up, and every year the number of aircraft visiting grows substantially, including an ever increasing GA interest.
Evans head flyin has been building rapidly, and has the potential to become a great aviation attraction in the area, a well as give a much needed econimical boost to the local area, but no,
they want to drain the surrounding wetlands dump all the mud and waste water onto the airfield, and develop all the land for a retirement village.
why have some councils have the foresite to develop their airfields into airparks, generating rates revenue, and profit from selling the land to the new home owners, as well as keep the airfield maintained and promoted for the good of the local economy, when others, see nothing but a quick sale to their chosen (related, kickback providing?)developers.