RKHenry wrote:
: I'm not sure how members of the "Can Clan" who tanker fuel from the corner
: gas station in jerry cans would handle this. It's one thing to send the
: state a fuel invoice from the FBO, it's another to send in a cash register
: receipt from the convenience mart.

That's exactly what I do. I've got a little spreadsheet that I key in the
gallons and total it up for them. I've sent in 100 receipts for 6-18 gallons apiece
totalling a few hundred gallons. They don't even have to add up the receipts (for
which I'm sure they're grateful).

Oh, and WRT filling with jerry cans, there's one more thing. There's always a
slight bit of crud in autofuel (trace water, particles, etc). I used to worry about
that in the airplane. Now I rigged up a spin-on water-absorbing filter in the spout
of the gas cans I fill from. Fuel is clean and dry.

: Would it make any difference to anyone if you knew that the tax was going
: into the Airport & Airways Fund instead of the state highway fund?

I don't gripe at all about the extra nickels' worth of airport tax I don't get
back on the airplane-autofuel.

I worry a
: little about that now that the airlines are arguing that the reason that
: they're all hemorraging money is because General Aviation isn't paying for
: 100% of the cost of ATC--which was mandated by the airlines.

This is (of course) completely B.S. that I've been reading about for awhile.
Funny how they can actually feel it's a credible argument. ATC wouldn't need to exist
if it weren't for commerical operations.

-Cory


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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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