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outaviation.com,
"Skylune" wrote:

by Orval Fairbairn Mar 29, 2006 at 09:39 PM



Now "Skylune" is starting to sound like Bill MulCahy.
"FAA/airport cabal", indeed!



MulCahy has his own style, but I agree with Bill that the FAA/airport
alliance is an unholy cabal.

A large part of the FAA bureaucracy exists to approve and administer
grants, which requires the employment of numerous personnel. Like other
bureaucracies, it seeks to protect and enlarge itself, with no
consideration to anything outside of its own mission: to expand aviation.
It is at odds with other bureaucracies, most notably the new OHS. EPA has
been largely de-fanged, but there are some tensions there too.

And there are intergovernmental tensions, often between FAA and localities
victimized by this nefarious agency.


I think that it is the other way around -- just look at Chicago, with
Meigs. The funds granted to airports are collected from the airspace
users -- not from General Funds. As such, those sponsors who accept
these funds are under obligation to use them for aviation use, only --
NOT to fund some real estate speculative venture for themselves.

Far too many cities are trying to weasel around the terms of the Grant
Deeds and place unreasonable restrictions (or even to close) airports
which have received funds.