Claim: Flight training operations (touch‑and‑gos) unnecessarily concentrate noise and risk and should be banned locally.

Flight training is essential. Reasoned mitigations include redistributing training, voluntary abatement routes, time‑of‑day restrictions coordinated with FAA, and simulator use. Bans can shrink the pilot pipeline and affect emergency readiness.

Claim: We don’t need so many pilots, it’s a false narrative and there isn’t a shortage of pilots.

Shortages do come and go, but the bottom line is with a good quantity of pilots, it helps support your $100 discount ticket to fly across the country. Reduce the pilot numbers and your cost to fly will definitely go up.

Those pilots training at our local fields are the very ones that will fly you on your next trip at your favorite airline. Don’t you want them to know how to land?