Of the 25 public submissions received by Lakes Environmental, at least 19 opposed the application and two supported it with conditions.
Only Airways New Zealand backed the commercial helicopter operator outright.
Queenstown-Milford Sound operations manager Bruce Rosie said Airways NZ supported the application and "encourage the use of multiple sites to allow continued commercial operations of aviation services."
Two submitters, Land Infor-mation New Zealand and the Department of Conservation, were neutral in their submissions while Transit New Zealand was in favour as long as the Wye Creek landing site was at least 100m away from State Highway 6.
Geoffrey Thomson of Mt Earns-law Station, and John Aspinall of Mt Aspiring Company Ltd, said they had not been approached by either Alpine Choppers or Queenstown Lakes District Council for permission.
"I cannot imagine a landowner granting permission to any operator without a clear understanding of the proposed use of the resource and what impact it may have on the owner's use of the land," Mr Thomson said.
Ngai Tahi Wakatipu Holdings Ltd opposed the parts of the application that related to its estate, namely Greenstone, Elfin Bay and Routeburn stations.
"Without permission from Ngai Tahu, the applicant will not be able to exercise the consent if granted in respect of these landing sites.
"It is therefore a waste of the applicant's, the council's and Ngai Tahu's resources to proceed with this application."
Wanaka landowner Andre Prassinos said he opposed because not enough information had been supplied by Alpine Choppers for the effects of the application to be determined.
"The individual and cumulative effects of the application are more than minor and the mitigation measures proposed are insufficient to reduce the effects to an acceptable level.
"The application and the effects are contrary to the objective and policies of the District Plan."
Helicopters Queenstown Ltd, which lodged resource consent paperwork for its own landing sites, said it opposed the application, "in its current format".
Chief executive Pat West said Alpine Choppers should submit individual applications for each site as other operators had done and not submit a "blanket application".
A date for the Alpine Choppers' application to be heard had not yet been scheduled, Lakes Environmental said.
An earlier application by Totally Tourism to broaden the type of helicopter trips it could make from the Arthurs Pt helipad attracted 230 public submissions.
Such a huge response was making it difficult for Lakes Environmental to set a date for a hearing, according to planning manager Bryan Fitzpatrick.
