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![]() "Newps" wrote in message news ![]() Skylune wrote: Technological solutions already exist. Creative solutions are called for. User fees need not be difficult to administer! For example, the EZ pass electronic transponder system for autos could be easily be extended to small planes. Aircraft owners would be required to pay a small annual fee for the transponder, say $10,000. As you pass by the OMNIs, charges to your credit card could be automatically posted. During takeoffs and landings, the same transponder detection equipment could be utilized to charge. Perhaps a first missed approach would be on the house. For subsequent missed approaches, a 50% landing fee would be charged. Your radios could also be equipped with electronic debiting software, to charge the card in the event you request flight following or need to contact ATC. Newer planes could be factory equiped with instrumentation (like the Hobbs) that would show how much you're racking up on the AMEX card. If you reach your charge limit while aloft, a fuel shut off switch could be automatically engaged, thereby encouraging timely payment of the user fees. If you are at sufficient altitude, there should be time to contact AMEX to get the credit limit lifted in order to accomplish an runway landing. You're making it a thousand times harder than it needs to be. User fees will not be on a per use basis, you will pay a yearly fee most probably based on the weight of your plane. Canada has user fees. Your typical single engine spamcan pays less than $50 per year for his user fees. That's Canadian money of course. So even if the average US owner got a bill each year for $50 it is trivial to the cost of flying. My objection to this idea goes back to the give an inch, take a mile argument. Open the door and there's always the chance someone will run a stampede through it... |
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