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Jet setters in Saint-Tropez may be forced to stay on the ground after French authorities limited helicopter flights responding this way to a lot of complaints about the noise. Francoise Souliman, an official in the regional administrative centre of Draguignan said the decision to close the helipad accounting for about 30 percent of helicopter traffic to Saint-Tropez came after abuses of an agreement to limit flights. Saint-Tropez is a magnet for movie stars and rich status-conscious people and it has been this way since the 1950s when stars like Brigitte Bardot discovered it. Helicopters are a great way to avoid the traffic jams there and also a fast and comfortable way to get to other villages and marinas along the coast. Francoise Souliman stated: "There's a shocking noise at all times of the day and they're quite often flying over the marinas at Gassin so you've got helicopters flying very low." Last year a voluntary agreement authorized 1,200 flight movements a year and set some limits at certain times of the day. Around 5,000 flights were registered between June and August 2006, according to Francoise Souliman

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