Comments on: Canyon noise http://blog.aopa.org/helicopter/?p=499 AOPA's Helicopter Blog Tue, 21 May 2013 12:38:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ehud Gavron http://blog.aopa.org/helicopter/?p=499#comment-1376 Ehud Gavron Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:17:11 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/helicopter/?p=499#comment-1376 Whenever I see a helicopter my heart gets warm, a smile spreads across my face, and I point and yell out in as crazy a voice as I can “HELICOPTER!!!” (I do this at movies too. It drives girlfriends crazy.)

If I was hiking the Canyon, I’d be excited to see a helicopter.

I think if the government should ban anything, it should be all those cars on the road that make it take so long to get to the helicopter ;)

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]]> By: David Larsen http://blog.aopa.org/helicopter/?p=499#comment-1375 David Larsen Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:17:02 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/helicopter/?p=499#comment-1375 My instructor got a job flying tours there, so I get the economic thing, yea jobs are good, but I don’t think Roosevelt or anybody else thought flying through parks were the way to see them. I hiked the Hanch trail in ’95 and I didn’t see a human for two days, it would have been a bummer to see a helicopter. Get a HD video.

]]> By: Vernon Scott http://blog.aopa.org/helicopter/?p=499#comment-1374 Vernon Scott Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:00:59 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/helicopter/?p=499#comment-1374 I’m a pilot and have visited the Grand Canyon. The solitude was broken by helicopter noise. I say ban all flights…… its about money.

]]> By: Pilot http://blog.aopa.org/helicopter/?p=499#comment-1370 Pilot Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:07:46 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/helicopter/?p=499#comment-1370 Reducing the amount of flights to the canyon in turn reduces the required number of pilots every year… let alone increasing staffing or any kind of growth at all. With the economy bustling in other countries, can’t we just get a break and just let them come over and spend their money on tours?

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