On Tue, 01 May 2007 21:03:18 -0400, "Paul Dow (Remove Caps in mail
address)" wrote in
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Larry Dighera wrote:
Don't be fooled by the Divide And Conquer strategy of the pro ATC
privatization crowd. How long do you think piston aircraft will
remain exempt? Is there going to be a non-negotiable guarantee, that
once ATC is privatized, piston aircraft will REMAIN exempt from user
fees? I have heard no mention of such a guarantee.
Not only that, but what would happen a few years down the road when
100LL could go away and someone comes up with a reasonably priced
turboprop for a C-172? Since it's not piston powered, the user fees
would apply. I realize "reasonably priced" and "aviation" are mutually
exclusive, but we shouldn't let the rules be made based on a particular
technology.
Agreed.
However once in place, imposing NextGen user fees on ALL airspace
users would be a simple matter, and it would be possible because GA's
voice opposing the implementation of ATC user fees was stifled through
the tactic of saying user fees won't apply to GA. Once the user fee
beachhead is established, the user fee war can be waged from much more
secure ground from that point on.
It's like California wanting to ban incandescent bulbs because they're
inefficient, but then GE comes out and says they're coming out with ones
twice as efficient as current versions.
http://www.geconsumerproducts.com/pr...E_lamps_07.htm
Interesting. It sort of makes you wonder why this new technology was
finally deployed after over a hundred years of incandescent lamp
production and on-going development.
The target for these bulbs at initial production is to be nearly
twice as efficient, at 30 lumens–per–watt, as current incandescent
bulbs. Ultimately the high efficiency lamp (HEI) technology is
expected to be about four times as efficient as current
incandescent bulbs and comparable to CFL bulbs.
Incandescent lamps will never be as efficient as LED based lighting.
That's where the industry is headed:
http://www.leditbe.com/
LEDs lamps are 10 to 50 times more energy-efficient than conventional
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http://www.ledtronics.com/
http://www.ledtronics.com/markets/25mm_med_index.htm
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Even in hostile conditions, the typical working life of an LED can be
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