In what may have been a first

for Peachtree City police, a local officer ticketed an airplane last Wednesday

for performing touch-and-go landings in Lake Peachtree.

The plane was in town for the

filming of the movie "Sweet Home Alabama" at nearby Wynn's Pond

in Coweta County, said Maj. Mike DuPree of the Peachtree City Police Department.

The pilot, Malcom R. Folsom of Greenville, Maine, was ticketed for performing

a prohibited activity in Peachtree City.

The department declined to

file more serious charges after learning there are regulations that allow

float planes to land in any body of water in which an gasoline-powered

watercraft is operated, DuPree said. The pilot was also unaware that a

request from movie officials to land float planes in Lake Peachtree was

denied by city officials, DuPree added.

"The denial was not relayed

to him," DuPree said. "He did not realize he was violating anything

was not sitting there."

Because no standard bonds have

been adopted for this particular city ordinance, Folsom will have to appear

in court to answer to the charges instead of pay a standard fine.

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