Daleandee
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Dale Andee
This was another one of those, "I wanna say something but I'm pretty sure it won't do any good" moments.
During a recent visit to a local town owned grass field several of us witnessed something a bit concerning. The local police have a pistol range just off one side of the field at the end of the hangar row. But on this day they were on the other side of the runway shooting rifles across the open runway at targets at the back of the pistol range. Thankfully there were no aircraft departing or landing at the time and I do not know if they had a radio to monitor traffic. Does this seem copacetic?
There were visitors there (this was during an EAA meeting) that seemed a bit troubled at what was happening as the sound of high powered rifle fire was attention getting. It's my guess that a small town airport can get away with this kind of stuff as they own the property and make the rules as to what is allowed on their property. So while it was troubling to see, my thinking is to leave this alone as that seemed to be the consensus of those that hangar there ...
Thoughts?
During a recent visit to a local town owned grass field several of us witnessed something a bit concerning. The local police have a pistol range just off one side of the field at the end of the hangar row. But on this day they were on the other side of the runway shooting rifles across the open runway at targets at the back of the pistol range. Thankfully there were no aircraft departing or landing at the time and I do not know if they had a radio to monitor traffic. Does this seem copacetic?
There were visitors there (this was during an EAA meeting) that seemed a bit troubled at what was happening as the sound of high powered rifle fire was attention getting. It's my guess that a small town airport can get away with this kind of stuff as they own the property and make the rules as to what is allowed on their property. So while it was troubling to see, my thinking is to leave this alone as that seemed to be the consensus of those that hangar there ...
Thoughts?