The FAA and ATC exist to serve the military. The airlines
are a justification on the budget. GA is forced to use ATC
because in the past 50-60 years the FAA expanded the scope
of controlled airspace to be everywhere. 25 years ago there
were large areas that were uncontrolled below 14.500 feet.


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| Sam Spade wrote:
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| When Phil Boyer makes those statements he is speaking in
terms of ATC
| and FSS services. I doubt AOPA's bean counters have
even considered
| NACO chart services.
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| Aren't the DOD charts damn similar to the NACO ones?
Doesn't that mean
| that there is some sharing of money and manpower between
FAA and DOD?
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