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AOPA warns user fee proposal could cripple GA Association pledges to work with Congress, GA community to oppose fees
Obama once again targets the aviation industry. This is for general aviation pilots. Today, the White House released a budget proposal which includes a $100-per-flight user fee. (m.aopa.org) Daha Fazlası...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
If you think you are exempt from user fees take a look down the road if this door is opened. Government will grow, only a small percentage will go to our NAS, and increases will be needed to support a new system.
I'm all for it! Perhaps this may be a way our idiot Pres and his bullshit user wife may finance yet another outrageous "vacation" for these two and their kids.....AF 1 uses a lot of gas, and the chase plane carrying his car and a hundred assorted security guards don't come cheap...........A great day for America!
Has everybody forgotten we already pay a tax! We are taxed on every gallon of Avgas and jet fuel we buy and use. The Federal Government should earmark the taxes paid on aviation fuels to pay for GA and commercial airports.
Another reason airports are so expensive to operate is have you ever looked at how many people are employed by cities and counties throughout the country? While some of the smaller airports that are uncontrolled may not have this problem the mid-size airports do.
I have gone into the airports admin office and found people just "sitting around putting in their time" and not getting anything accomplished. Also, GA airports should raise enough revenue to cover the expenses to operate the airport but should they making a profit, after all it is a public service.
When you have people that run our airports that do not own planes or fly of even have a pilots license how can you think they have our best interest at heart. They are just administrators, looking at the bottom line, with out a clue as to what pilots and aircraft owners want or need.
If the current administration wanted to kick start the economy why not cut back on the federal taxes on all fuels and maybe the local governments could do the same... but I do not think this will ever happen because it is way too large of a cash cow for them.
Another reason airports are so expensive to operate is have you ever looked at how many people are employed by cities and counties throughout the country? While some of the smaller airports that are uncontrolled may not have this problem the mid-size airports do.
I have gone into the airports admin office and found people just "sitting around putting in their time" and not getting anything accomplished. Also, GA airports should raise enough revenue to cover the expenses to operate the airport but should they making a profit, after all it is a public service.
When you have people that run our airports that do not own planes or fly of even have a pilots license how can you think they have our best interest at heart. They are just administrators, looking at the bottom line, with out a clue as to what pilots and aircraft owners want or need.
If the current administration wanted to kick start the economy why not cut back on the federal taxes on all fuels and maybe the local governments could do the same... but I do not think this will ever happen because it is way too large of a cash cow for them.
Now there's the germ of an idea.
Lawyers have to pass the Bar
Doctors have to pass their Boards.
How about a requirment that someone who runs an airport is required to pass exams to obtain a pilot's license.
Lawyers have to pass the Bar
Doctors have to pass their Boards.
How about a requirment that someone who runs an airport is required to pass exams to obtain a pilot's license.
Those germs
Would you prefer gremlins of an idea?
In government jobs it's mostly who you know, not what you know. Lol
Here's yet another reminder... GA!