Summer 2004 - Fairfax O’Riley (ex-flight instructor
ECAC)
provided numerous “fly friendly” suggestions:
WINGS program for
pilot
education
Contract Tower
Airports -
Norwood
and Beverly
Airports
are actively soliciting flight training
Mapping all
available
space and create regional agreement
for flight schools/individual pilots practice areas
Petitions to FAA to
open
additional airspace for acrobatics
(flight schools are much less restricted)
Unfortunately,
Fairfax
has pursued other avenues for his career and is unable to continue his
leadership role to implement these fly friendly proposals.
He had
recommended other flight instructors (Jim Henry, Maurice Mourneau,
Chris
Rourke) to continue his work, an avenue we had pursued but have been
unsuccessful. Additionally, we emailed these
recommendations to New
England Free Skies Association, a pilot's activist organization.