Election results may bring good change to aviation

I did not vote for Bush, and so consider his re-election a catastrophe
in many ways, however there is some good news. AVWeb has just posted
the following: Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska is taking over the Commerce,
Science and Transportation Committee, which they explained sets policy
for the FAA, from Sen. John McCain of Arizona. AOPA is said to be
glad to hear this as they never could get McCain to see their point of
view regarding user fees. AOPA claims Stevens is "a strong and
forceful friend to General Aviation."

http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#188473

We'll see.

Corky Scott

McCain's antipathy toward GA turned me off of him for good. An Alaskan
understands general aviation.

Bob Gardner

"Corky Scott" wrote in message
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I did not vote for Bush, and so consider his re-election a catastrophe
in many ways, however there is some good news. AVWeb has just posted
the following: Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska is taking over the Commerce,
Science and Transportation Committee, which they explained sets policy
for the FAA, from Sen. John McCain of Arizona. AOPA is said to be
glad to hear this as they never could get McCain to see their point of
view regarding user fees. AOPA claims Stevens is "a strong and
forceful friend to General Aviation."

http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#188473

We'll see.

Corky Scott

"Bob Gardner" wrote in message
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McCain's antipathy toward GA turned me off of him for good. An Alaskan
understands general aviation.

Bob Gardner

McCain has a major bug up his tailpipe about corporate welfare (not that I
disagree) and I suspect he's got corporate jets in his eyes when he talks
about this stuff. Which means he may or may not realize that his policies
wouldn't mean much to the whales but would kill off a lot of us guppies.

Anybody know how much we pay into the federal till through taxes on Avgas?

-cwk.

C Kingsbury wrote:

Anybody know how much we pay into the federal till through taxes on Avgas?

I haven't bought fuel in Carolina in a few years, but RDU used to list the taxes on
the bill. The last time I was there, the Federal tax was a bit over fifteen cents a
gallon.

George Patterson
If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have
been looking for it.

Corky Scott wrote:

I did not vote for Bush, and so consider his re-election a catastrophe
in many ways, however there is some good news. AVWeb has just posted
the following: Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska is taking over the Commerce,
Science and Transportation Committee, which they explained sets policy
for the FAA, from Sen. John McCain of Arizona. AOPA is said to be
glad to hear this as they never could get McCain to see their point of
view regarding user fees. AOPA claims Stevens is "a strong and
forceful friend to General Aviation."

Yes and my Senator visited my Tower this morning saying he would
probably be moving to the Aviation committee because of McCain moving to
a different committee. We of course lobbied him about putting radar
into an airport about 140 miles SW of us and having us work the traffic.
That will probably happen. Then his cell phone rang. He got a report
that Arafat had died. His response..."Good, the little good for nothing
prick gummed up the works." High fives all around. A later call
reported that he is just near death, more jokes all around.

Corky Scott wrote in message . ..
I did not vote for Bush, and so consider his re-election a catastrophe
in many ways, however there is some good news. AVWeb has just posted
the following: Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska is taking over the Commerce,
Science and Transportation Committee, which they explained sets policy
for the FAA, from Sen. John McCain of Arizona.

This can only be good for us. Being from Alaska, Ted Stevens has
an appreciation for the value of GA. John McCain (former Navy pilot)
has proven over the years that he hasn't a clue what GA is all about.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

"C Kingsbury" wrote in message
nk.net...

"Bob Gardner" wrote in message
...
McCain's antipathy toward GA turned me off of him for good. An Alaskan
understands general aviation.

Bob Gardner

McCain has a major bug up his tailpipe about corporate welfare (not that I
disagree) and I suspect he's got corporate jets in his eyes when he talks
about this stuff. Which means he may or may not realize that his policies
wouldn't mean much to the whales but would kill off a lot of us guppies.

Anybody know how much we pay into the federal till through taxes on Avgas?

The total collected is around $60 million which is about 11% of what it
costs to run FSS alone. These numbers were in a recent AOPA magazine. GA
is not paying its way.

Mike
MU-2

The total collected is around $60 million which is about 11% of what it
costs to run FSS alone. These numbers were in a recent AOPA magazine. GA
is not paying its way.

What is "its way"? Remember, GA uses less runway and probably (because so much of it is VFR) less ATC than the airlines. That spam cans are slower isn't an issue really, since their trips may well take the same number of minutes or less, on
average, than airline trips. How much would it take for bicycles to pay "their way" of the land transportation infrastructure?

Jose
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for Email, make the obvious change in the address

To start with GA is just about the exclusive user of FSS. It is also pretty
much the only user of the majority of airports in the country.

Mike
MU-2


"Jose" wrote in message
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The total collected is around $60 million which is about 11% of what it
costs to run FSS alone. These numbers were in a recent AOPA magazine.
GA is not paying its way.

What is "its way"? Remember, GA uses less runway and probably (because so
much of it is VFR) less ATC than the airlines. That spam cans are slower
isn't an issue really, since their trips may well take the same number of
minutes or less, on average, than airline trips. How much would it take
for bicycles to pay "their way" of the land transportation infrastructure?

Jose
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for Email, make the obvious change in the address

To start with GA is just about the exclusive user of FSS.

Fair enough, though this is pretty much by law (and by TFR).

It is also pretty
much the only user of the majority of airports in the country.

.... most of which are self supporting, no? I don't see any airline or federal aviation funds going into Podunk Municipal Grass Strip.

Jose
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for Email, make the obvious change in the address