Election results may bring good change to aviation

In article et, "Mike
Rapoport" wrote:

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.

How much money would the FAA save if every aircraft under 6,000 lbs
was permanently grounded?

--
Bob Noel
Seen on Kerry's campaign airplane: "the real deal"
oh yeah baby.

$600,000,000 for flight service less the tax on avgas
(60,000,000)=$540,000,000
Some portion of the airport improvement funds ( I think that these total
over $2 Billion
Some portion of ATC.

Probably between a billion and a billion and a half.

Mike
MU-2

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"Bob Noel" wrote in message
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In article et, "Mike
Rapoport" wrote:

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.

How much money would the FAA save if every aircraft under 6,000 lbs
was permanently grounded?

--
Bob Noel
Seen on Kerry's campaign airplane: "the real deal"
oh yeah baby.

On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 14:18:23 GMT, "Mike Rapoport"
wrote:

$600,000,000 for flight service less the tax on avgas

Sheesh! That's about $1000 for every licensed pilot. I'm sure not
getting my money's worth. I fly about 150-200 hours per year, call
flight service maybe once (to close a flight plan) or twice (to get an
in-flight weather briefing). I won't be needing the latter any more
as I'm now getting XM weather in the cockpit and I rarely file VFR
flight plans any more either - I just tell my wife where I'm going and
call her when I get there.

Do you have a cite for that $600M figure? If it's really that much, I
say just close the dang thing.

Thanks,
Klein

Here is the source:

http://www.aopa.org/members/files/pi...04/pp0408.html

Mike
MU-2



"Klein" wrote in message
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On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 14:18:23 GMT, "Mike Rapoport"
wrote:

$600,000,000 for flight service less the tax on avgas

Sheesh! That's about $1000 for every licensed pilot. I'm sure not
getting my money's worth. I fly about 150-200 hours per year, call
flight service maybe once (to close a flight plan) or twice (to get an
in-flight weather briefing). I won't be needing the latter any more
as I'm now getting XM weather in the cockpit and I rarely file VFR
flight plans any more either - I just tell my wife where I'm going and
call her when I get there.

Do you have a cite for that $600M figure? If it's really that much, I
say just close the dang thing.

Thanks,
Klein

Bob Noel opined

In article et, "Mike
Rapoport" wrote:

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.

How much money would the FAA save if every aircraft under 6,000 lbs
was permanently grounded?

That is the critical question. Does (light)GA cover its marginal costs?

-ash
Cthulhu in 2005!
Why wait for nature?