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Fellow Pilots and Skydivers,

AOPA, the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, has created a web site, "General Aviation Serves America", at www.gaservesamerica.com to help educate policy makers and our fellow citizens about the important role that General Aviation plays in our country, and that it is not just a bunch of small planes hindering commercial aviation, or a bunch of wealthy people and their private jets.

Since they offered, I sent information to AOPA about how fellow skydiver Dr. Jean Potvin and myself from the Parks College Parachute Research Group have used not only General Aviation, but also skydiving General Aviation aircraft do help us with our research, much of which has benefited the US military.

The article can be found at: http://www.gaservesamerica.com/stories/090929peek.html There will be a link to the article on the main page of the web site for a week or so, until they create new articles.

The author of the article is a public relations specialist, but not a pilot, so it took me a while to explain what we were doing, but I think it turned out fairly well.

I think the most important point it gets across is that skydiving is not just a frivolous activity, but is a General Aviation activity that can help not only our country, but also our military, and perhaps to help keep them out of harms way.

[riggerpaul 1]

Excellent!

Thanks for your work!

Thanks for also working to get recognition for you work!

We all benefit from both.

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Fellow Pilots and Skydivers,

AOPA, the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, has created a web site, "General Aviation Serves America", at www.gaservesamerica.com to help educate policy makers and our fellow citizens about the important role that General Aviation plays in our country, and that it is not just a bunch of small planes hindering commercial aviation, or a bunch of wealthy people and their private jets.

Since they offered, I sent information to AOPA about how fellow skydiver Dr. Jean Potvin and myself from the Parks College Parachute Research Group have used not only General Aviation, but also skydiving General Aviation aircraft do help us with our research, much of which has benefited the US military.

The article can be found at: http://www.gaservesamerica.com/stories/090929peek.html There will be a link to the article on the main page of the web site for a week or so, until they create new articles.

The author of the article is a public relations specialist, but not a pilot, so it took me a while to explain what we were doing, but I think it turned out fairly well.

I think the most important point it gets across is that skydiving is not just a frivolous activity, but is a General Aviation activity that can help not only our country, but also our military, and perhaps to help keep them out of harms way.

That's part of your 15 minutes of fame.

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