"We received a number of complaints at different times. We just
stopped him the 10th of August. We approached him when he landed,
but he was compliant with all our federal laws as a boat. We don't
have jurisdiction in the air."
Source: USCG Petty Officer James Lewis, in an
interview with the Wilmington, NC, News-Star. He was talking about
the pilot of a home-built Seawind 3000 that crashed near Figure
Eight Island on Sunday. Lewis said most complaints concerning
Bobbit's flying centered on low altitudes.