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areas, in those cases the aircraft may not be operated closer than 500 feet to any person, vessel or structure. We have complaints. One is 1,000 feet; one is 1500 feet. They’re invalid. The noise, my airstrip is 700 feet higher than the town of Naalehu. When I start my aircraft I’m okay. They can’t squawk about the noise because I’m allowed, I have a right to fly that. So the noise is not, like I went down to see the police captain. He said the noise is not coming from the airplane. He said they’re going to complain. So if he posts this on the wall, the complaints are taken care of. I have a right to fly my airplane within 500 feet. I’m not saying I would exercise that right. I mean I could fly, the pattern that you have before you, I could fly that pattern from one hour before sunset until one hour after sunset legally. I could simply fly my airplane around and around, not that I would, but I have a right to. So, again, I’m with the Planning Director in the fact that we don’t want an airstrip. Nobody wants an airstrip there where you’re going to bring in a bunch of airplanes. I mean, I got a little shed out there, and I sit there and it’s perfectly quiet. I don’t want to see anymore airplanes either. But that’s not the case. I simply want the privilege. It’s not my privilege to land my airplane. I can fly out there by right to check my pig trap, and I can fly within five feet of it. But I can’t land. That’s a privilege that I’m asking. And the only people who have the right to file a complaint against me is EWM. Their land is directly in front of my take-off area. And something else to bear in mind, not everything that comes in on a petition or every call that’s made to the Planning Department is made under oath. I mean, there’s talk that I’ve been flying there twice a day since I got a cease and desist, that’s not quite true. And somebody else called in and said I took out 470 cubic yards of earth. I didn’t see any holes around there. Anyway -. So what I’m asking is that I could land my airplane there. And I consulted EWM and we drew up a land court recordable deed that is in agreement with myself and the Planning Director and everybody else, limiting me to two, one flight a week and that they have the right to stop, this cannot be -. It’s not like we’re going to establish an airstrip that runs with the land and then I, like a grandfathered in. The request is simply to allow me to land my airplane once a week on my own farm, which I’m in my rights as far as the aircraft goes. So we’re not asking for an airstrip. I have no choice. I was landing there for three years without an airstrip. I didn’t know, I didn’t know that the minute you touched an airplane on the ground you established an airstrip; but that’s how they look at it. Same as your car, drive it in my field, you’ve created a highway. That’s not quite true. So what we’re asking is don’t pluck our feathers, don’t make me shut down my onion farm and my grass for no good reason. So if you would study this, this says that I can’t have a, transfer or create an airstrip or anything. So basically that’s just my own airplane once a week. And I have my mechanic here who can vouch for my airplane. WOODWARD: All right, any questions for the testifier? Seeing none, no. Sir, would you like to say something? Your name and address first and then go ahead. BRIDGES: All right. My name is Richard Bridges. I live at 15-280 South Puni Makai, Pahoa. I am a licensed airframe power plant mechanic and I worked on Martin Oliver’s aircraft. And I’ve installed a new muffler on it and it’s actually a really quiet little 4 EXHIBIT C