Originally Posted by specialvfr
7. All helicopter training other than circuit training is prohibited at the airport (this includes autorotations, slope training, sling load training, and any activity within the airport boundaries including the centre grass area).
This letter gave less then one weeks notification of a major limitation of Heli training at the airport. This activity accounts for at lest 90% of the revenue that the airport earns. Robinson will quite happily admit the airport does not make a profit so what happens when 90% of what they do make disappears?
All that means is that rather than doing autorotations etc in a circuit the helicopter operators have to find somewhere else to do them. Sounds no different to what happens at Christchurch Airport or I'd imagine Ardmore (which are far busier airports than Paraparaumu). It doesn't mean that the helicopter operators have to stop operating at all.
Me thinks you're jumping up and down over nothing really.. Have fun playing by yourself.