When I speak my mind in public at say an open house meeting, I would like to see some of which I spoke really quoted in a mainstream newspaper.
One of the things that was and is a concern, in the new airport in Burley or immediate area is air safety. I unequivocally agree. One item , and I’ll most likely go to my grave saying it, is the lack of Air Traffic Control in Idaho. There are two Airports with a MANNED control tower 24/7/365. Boise and Twin Falls and only part time in both Pocatello and Idaho Falls. Landing lights sure, you click three times on a air channel, on your aircraft radio mic and on comes the tower light and runway lights. But if you in an air emergency there is not that much time. Burley and one of eastern Idaho’s control towers needs to have a person in that crows nest, not just some automated weather report. Two air accidents a few years ago near Glenns Ferry and Bliss, could have been much less tragic had there been a live person monitoring air traffic to engage help. Look at the chain of process here. Pilot needs help, calls over the radio requiring help. Nearest control tower with a live body, Twin Falls or Boise. Who then has to call the governing authority , that needs to call the required emergency first responders, either fire, law, ambulance etc then by then the emergency is tragic. Because it took too damn long to get help to where it was needed. Of course we know state, Federal , County, City budgets are tighter Opra Winfrey’s pantyhose, these days, but when there are air craft organizations from those like ours the AyreWolvez to such outfits as the Civil Air Patrol, that if the facility was there, would man that tower. But does anyone say, okay here go for it? There is no airport in Utah that does not have at least a manned tower or at least someone monitoring a air craft radio for trouble. Two of those are charters of the AyreWolvez, mainly Tooele’s Airport, and Springville’s Airport.
However my gripe, is this; why were my comments ignored? Is it the bias that the Times News has against me and the AyreWolvez, or the reporter or both. Don’t matter much, since you read it here as well as hear it overnight on HazzardAyre Radio, but here is the clincher, the Times News, Mini Cassia Voice, Weekly Reader wont quote me, but they do read our publication and will rewrite articles. KMVT has done that on more than once. The mainstream press might not like me, but they love copying me. Some of those same reporters will be looking for a job from us in the future, as did many who applied when we were looking for help for the Gooding office, I remember reporters’s names and those who I contact when we as an organization have news. Those who don’t respond don’t get jobs with us.
Fingers really sore this morning, so going to defer to the Afternoon edition of HazzardAyre, but there is something shaking, and the AyreWolvez are the ones doing the shaking, stay tuned.
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