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The slow death of GA is in acceleration in the NY area.


I believe you're missing the smaller picture. TEB has been *small* GA
unfriendly for quite some time now. It's all about money: which makes more
for the FBO, a 4 172s or 1 citation?

Right now, MMU is pretty good about small GA. But I predict that this won't
last long. The best break we "little plane" pilots got in a while in this
area was the rejection of the idea to extend CDW's 4/22 and put in an ILS.

And, of course, we've several smaller airports in the neighborhood. We do
need to work to keep them. NJ's been pretty good about this recently, I'm
please to note, trying to buy development rights and such.

TEB with its volume of commercial GA operations is, I suspect, less the rule
than the exception. Fortunately, I don't think most GA airports can handle
the traffic TEB's receiving.

Further to this, one particular FBO at TEB had a recent insurance problem.
Even though this wasn't related to small GA, a consequence was a severe
restriction in what could be done with their rented planes.

At least, that's the story. There's still the fact that small airplanes
take space and management that makes more money on larger planes.

- Andrew