"One's Too Many" wrote in message
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Just thought i'd throw that in

The big ATC privatization issue is not so much about the tower guys at
your little class D airports. The big worry is more about enroute
stuff, centers, approach, departure, clearance delivery and all of a
sudden everyone getting repeatedly billed large sums of money just for
flying thru some airspace handled by some private corporation that
will staff these positions with personnel the quality of a typical
computer tech support script-parrot.

I understand that. But coming from actually knowing people "on the inside"
alot of what the FAA uses is from private companies/organizations. I'm sure
my lil Class D airport isn't reall the issue, but on the flipside, most
class B isn't for us "GA" pilots in many ways. I find landing at the class
B airports to be expensive as is, so any more fees wouldn't really bother
me. If i have to fly through them then i look for the VFR routes through
them or i go under and around them. No sense in my lil tin can to get in the
way of heavies.

The only Difference between contracted and government workers to me is the
people pushing the contract. IF this is a union labor vs non union labor
then leave me out of it. If this is privatized - IE "contracted" airports
then my point is to say there are alot of fully functional "privatized" ATC
airports that work like a charm.

Joe controller is still Joe controller be it he works for the government or
not.

Believe me, i'm all against privatizing in the sense that the FAA drops
federal subsidation for aviation as that would murder the industry, but
privitization via contracting out jobs to bidders isn't anything that
concerns me.

If our military can do it, if the business sector can do it, why can't the
government sector continue to do it?