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Old February 13th 07, 07:13 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.aviation.ifr,rec.aviation.student
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Default If user fees go into effect I'm done


"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 21:41:19 -0000, Dylan Smith
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On 2007-02-10, Mxsmanic wrote:
Europeans are already accustomed to having their lives run for them by
bureaucrats (now in several layers both domestic and international). It
does
not occur to them to _resist_ things. The ones who were willing to
resist
injustices and incompetence crossed the Atlantic and Pacific centuries
ago.


Europeans do actually resist - as evidenced by the massive response to
the CAA's Mode S transponder proposals. However, the GA population is so
small it is effectively disenfranchised - the CAA basically responded
'well we're going to do it anyway so there'. When you are 50,000 voters
out of an electorate of 40 million, your opinion counts for nothing -
especially when the CAA is leaned on heavily by moneyed corporate
interests like the airlines - the executives of which can remove their
donations to political parties if the CAA doesn't do what they want.

In the end your only option if you don't like the CAA is to move
somewhere else (typically the US). However, most pilots like enough
_other_ things about their own country that they aren't prepared to move
over just a single issue.


A couple of years ago the Eurocrat politicians tried to bring in a
constitution to harmonise Europe. The people voted it out thankfully.Well in
this case the Dutch and the French.
The politicians got a real bloody nose. It has not stopped them trying to
bring it in again, but they are in a state od shambles.

People power.


 




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