> "Sylvia Else" wrote in message
>
> news:g9562o$ogn$1@aioe.org...
>

>>http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24254905-5001028,...

>

>> "TRAINEE pilots should practise in regional areas away from urban centres,
>> Victorian Premier John Brumby has suggested."

>

>> The guy obviously has no idea of the financial reality faced by many
>> would-be pilots.

>

>> Sylvia.

>
> I gave the attached to our media man but I suspect he will release something
> less agro:
> The airfield was there first and has always been a training field therefore
> many of the concerned locals may be forgetting that they purchased their
> land and/or house, possibly at a reduced price because of the location and
> known airfield operations.
> The premier is making recommendations after a rare aviation accident with
> minimal damage in an area under the control of the Federal government.  He
> may be better to think of areas under his control like the Victorian road
> toll that despite fuel prices causing reduced and slower driving is actually
> up on last year, no doubt assisted by the railway crossing fatalities
> between vehicles and trains at the crossings the Brumby Government has not
> got around to fixing, or the lack of traffic police.
> cheers
> Brian