VCRC Official Business another case

[Keith Black]

Buddy, what would be even more unfortunate is to invest the time and money to relocate the runway and *still* get kicked out. Before doing so you might want to have a heart to heart talk with HLS to make sure they're OK with you being there for the long term. You could even take the opportunity to let them know the extraordinary lengths you're going to to accommodate them. 

One hates to stir up the pot by bring this up to HLS, but you can be assured they already know you're there.

BTW, I think the plan to move the runway is an excellent idea and absolutely necessary for you to have any chance of staying long term. Without doing so it's just a matter of time until another fly over or boundary crossing crash occurs. Heck, you got lucky this last weekend! It's a pretty good bet HLS will only tolerate a few of these before the pull the plug.

Keith
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  From: BUDDYonRC at aol.com 
  To: discussion at nsrca.org 
  Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 4:00 PM
  Subject: Re: VCRC Official Business another case


  Our field is located next to a marine oil terminal, this terminal is the main terminal where crude oil is routed to two government strategic oil reserve facilities, in June the management of that terminal called a meeting to make us and our lessor the City aware of a Bulletin that they received concerning Homeland Security specifically Model Aircraft/ UAV etc.  we were given a copy of it and it stated their concerns and also stated that it was an official HLS classified document for our eyes only. The terminal was requesting our assistance in reporting any unusual model activity by reporting it to them and HLS. In addition they also informed us that flying over their facility was no an option and that any fly overs or crossing their property line required that it be reported to HLS, if not reported the new HLS rules impose a $25,000 fine on them for each violation.
  Three days after the new rules went into effect one of our members crashed inside their fence, he immediately went to their facility to report it and try to recover his airplane, when he arrived they told him that the new monitoring system installed there had recorded the exact location where his airplane had entered there facility and where it was located in the facility. 
  They recovered his airplane and after filling out HLS forms which requires forty-five minutes, it was returned to him, and he was told to expect to be contacted by HLS or other law enforcement people. 
  We have since put in effect club procedures to try to eliminate any future such accidents as we feel that violation of the rules now in place could result in the loss of our flying field. 
  In order to minimize crossing their fence which is on the South end of our field we are considering relocating the direction of our runway from NS to EW which will require a considerable investment. I wonder if HLS will help pay for it? We have been at this field for about fifteen years and would hate to loose it, Anyone know where funds may be available for such a project.
  Buddy      
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