Their right to ban training probably depends on who funded the airport and the navaids in the first place. If it was the taxpayer at large (as opposed to local ratepayers) they should be challenged. Should the ratepayers have funded the airport but not the navaids, they may be able to stop training landings or touch and goes on their little piece of tarmac, but how could they stop approaches to a go-around from the published MAP? To what vertical limit does a local shire control or own airspace?
Meantime, where is the NOTAM?
It's probably those bloody horse people whining about a bit of noise. The same up-your-nose mob who buy up the cheap swampland around airports, build big houses under the flight path and then lobby council to ban those infernal flying machines because they are frightening the polo ponies. A horse that freaks at a bit of noise is a danger to itself and its rider anyway. Fit only for a can of petfood. And unless they are breeding stock horses for proper mustering work, imho these anti-aviation Luddites are contributing NOTHING useful to society.
Meantime they engage in their own anti-social behaviour by inconveniencing the rest of us with their horse floats blocking the roads when we need to be on time for work/choir practice/fishing/girlfriend/pub.
Last edited by Mach E Avelli; 18th Oct 2009 at 09:43.