One can hope that the Colorado Supreme Court turns down Citizens for Quiet Skies’ case against Mile-Hi Skydiving.

That’s not because the skydiving planes aren’t noisy, and not because lead plaintiff Kimberly Gibbs doesn’t really represent a group of area residents who are disturbed by the drone of planes that make multiple, rapid ascents over Boulder County west of Longmont.

It’s that Quiet Skies – having lost in Boulder District Court and in the state appellate court in its effort to quiet Mile-Hi’s planes – has a slim-to-none chance of prevailing. It has gotten to the point where the group’s complaints against Mile-Hi have themselves have become only noise, and it’s time to give up this fight.

For about six years, Gibbs has been speaking out against the skydiving company’s operations out of Vance Brand Municipal Airport, first directly to the City Council and via letters to the Times-Call Open Forum, and finally via a lawsuit filed in 2015.

Read more at The Longmont Times-Call.