Good to hear from a local perspective there scrufflefish. There are certain elements of cowboy'ism being displayed there from what you have described, so perhaps the locals do have something to whinge about. My inlaws live near 10nm from a drop zone and if you're in the garden or the shed you can constantly hear a couple of parachuting aircraft operating so I can imagine it might get a bit tiring if you lived closer. I would be p.i.s.s.e.d if I bought a place 5 miles from an airport and the air traffic doubled in the years following. Many of us go to our airports on the weekend, go off flying, come back and go home again so don't really experience it from a locals perspective. (not suggesting that this was deserved of course)
Does this aircraft do the round to other drop zones? I'm pretty sure that I saw it being "hot fuelled" on a number of occasions
