Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 9, 2005 17:52:28 GMT 12
This comes from NZ Teletext today
Group Lobbies For Sky Park
The world's first ever national park in the sky, reaching 20,000 feet into the heavens, is being proposed for part of the South Island.
NZ's Gliding Grand Prix director Peter Newport will meet with Cabinet Ministers next week to try and convince them the sky above Omarama should be protected for adventure aviation sports.
He says a park would create a haven for gliding, parachuting, hot air ballooning and aerobatics and would also attract tourists.
OK, so there's the report. I have to say that given their desire for creating National Parks Labour will probably go for this, but, what is it really all about?
Will they need park rangers patrolling at various altitudes to ensure no-one parachutes into a balloon, or does aerobatics around a glider?
What will such a zone protect these things from? Birds who happen to migrate through the area? Certainly not passenger planes, it's the most thermally place in NZ so why would they fly through there?
And as it's a National Park, will there be a shooting season?
Group Lobbies For Sky Park
The world's first ever national park in the sky, reaching 20,000 feet into the heavens, is being proposed for part of the South Island.
NZ's Gliding Grand Prix director Peter Newport will meet with Cabinet Ministers next week to try and convince them the sky above Omarama should be protected for adventure aviation sports.
He says a park would create a haven for gliding, parachuting, hot air ballooning and aerobatics and would also attract tourists.
OK, so there's the report. I have to say that given their desire for creating National Parks Labour will probably go for this, but, what is it really all about?
Will they need park rangers patrolling at various altitudes to ensure no-one parachutes into a balloon, or does aerobatics around a glider?
What will such a zone protect these things from? Birds who happen to migrate through the area? Certainly not passenger planes, it's the most thermally place in NZ so why would they fly through there?
And as it's a National Park, will there be a shooting season?
