GOP Kills $100 million relief to GA companies hurt by 9/11 airspace restrictions

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:54:43 -0800, "BTIZ"
wrote in Message-Id: kXhSb.2027$IF1.1394@fed1read01:


all the flight schools in the Las Vegas Valley were impacted while the first
Class B to the floor and not VFR restriction was in place, I think that
lasted about 2 months.

It looks like the DC-Four may get some relief:


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AOPA ePilot Volume 6, Issue 5 January 30, 2004
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FAA GETS SPENDING MONEY FOR GA PROGRAMS
General aviation came out ahead in the huge omnibus spending bill
Congress passed last week to fund the government for the rest of this
fiscal year. The FAA's piece of the pie contains money to fund a
number of items that AOPA lobbied hard for. The bill fully funds the
Airport Improvement Program, including $341 million for general
aviation airports. That means new hangars, in addition to other
improvements. The omnibus bill also addresses how pilots are going to
keep their high-compression engines running when leaded aviation fuel
is phased out by providing $500,000 to research unleaded fuels for
general aviation. Some $3 million has been allocated so the FAA can
continue to develop ILS-like GPS approaches at GA airports using the
Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS). However, no money was included
for reimbursing GA businesses hurt by the national airspace shutdown
after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks; the omnibus bill
merely "encourages" the FAA to reimburse FBOs at the four Washington,
D.C.-area airports that were hardest hit. See AOPA Online
( http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsite...04-1-060x.html