GA's "fair share"

by Newps Nov 8, 2005 at 10:36 AM


Skylune wrote:
"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."

But Boyer produced the video of the meter running! Maybe he doesn't
know
about Canada's simple fee system.

Done for effect. Even the pro user fee types realize you cannot charge
on a per use fee. The revenue collected would be far outweighed by the
collection process."

Boyer and his cronies should use an intellectually honest approach, rather
than the stupid stuff his organization produces when they object to ADIZ
("I fly a C-150, fear me!") or user fees (the running meter video). The
sound bite stuff from AOPA is really dumb. I guess he knows that an
honest assessment would show the true state of affairs: very heavy
subsidies for light GA.

Minetta knows this: don't let the recent love fest fool you all. That's
why he kept on using the "in my view" qualifying language at the recent
EXPO. (Even the AOPA has picked up on this huge qualifier.)

An honest assessment would start with the $$ GA pays into the system, and
then attempt to quantify the resources used by GA, including capital (the
airports themselves, including runways, towers, lighting, electronics,
etc) and operations (ATC services mostly).