The proposed air training field at Frogs Hollow may provide a few local jobs for the unemployed aircraft engineers, flight trainers etc in our valley but most will likely come from outside the valley. What it will do is to change forever our lovely valley from a peaceful retreat to a valley-wide industrial zone.

Do not fall for the mendacious line sprouted by the Boyles - “There won't be a noise issue, our aircraft are only half the power of a Cessna so will be much quieter”. This is an outright lie - consider the noise difference between a one-litre Harley Davidson and a five-litre Holden Commodore. The fact is lightweight vehicles like motorbikes and light aircraft simply cannot afford the extra weight of heavy mufflers and (for light aircraft) water cooling.

Please, powers that be, consider the greater good for the greater number. A few jobs versus destroying the lifestyle for the whole valley.

Apathy about important issues is what ruins communities and remember your kids will be living here long after you are gone.

My pet hate is people who constantly complain to me about issues but do nothing about them personally.

Every resident of Bega Valley Shire needs to send a letter, not an email, to council saying no to Frogs Hollow Flight School. Mail is usually logged officially.

Your current wonderful lifestyle will change if this monstrosity is built. Not only will your lifestyle disappear we will all be in very real danger. Just Google Bankstown Airport crashes, or for that matter any of the small airports.

I don’t care if the airport meets the guidelines, I don’t want it and neither should you.

Just a little bit of logic. The premise of this is that we would be training Chinese pilots to recreationally fly in China. Problem is there isn’t any recreational flying in China.  Remember this is the country who mowed down innocent students protesting in Tiananmen Square. China is paranoid about anything in their airspace so I can’t see all those rich people buzzing around in Cessnas.

Worst comes to the worst, put the flying school at Merimbula Airport where a plane takes off only every 1-2 hours.

This project makes absolutely no sense socially or economically except for making a lot of money for its proponents.

Yes, how wonderful. Air pollution, noise pollution and the total disruption and devastation to our environment, what a joke! A big no to this! 

Flying school will operate Mon-Sat 7am-6pm; Sun and public holidays 8am-6pm. That equates to 76 operational hours per week.

They propose to train 1200 students/year.

Each student will fly for 30 hours (a conservative estimate as the average is 30 to 40 hours) So, 1200 students x 30 hours = 36,000 flying hours/year.

This is equivalent to 3000 flying hours/ month. Or 750 flying hours/ week.

Dividing the weekly flying hours by the weekly operational hours: 750 / 76 = 9.8 flying hours per operational hour.

So that is a minimum of 10 planes in the air for almost 11 hours per day every day of the year.

This is a conservative estimate it could be 25 per cent worse.

This will increase the background sound level of the Bega Valley to levels of heavy city traffic for 11 hours a day every day.