The subsidies to GA are MASSIVE

In article .net,
"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote:

Westover Air Reserve Base, aka Westover Metropolitan Airport, hasn't been an
Air Force Base since 1974.

However, Westover sure isn't a GA-only airport.

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Bob Noel
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It is an Air Reserve base with heavy C5 activity. You can't do TnG's there
and the Metropolitan activity is small in comparison to C5 activity.

mike regish

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"Steve Foley" wrote in message
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Why is Westover Airforce Base listed as GA?


Westover Air Reserve Base, aka Westover Metropolitan Airport, hasn't been
an Air Force Base since 1974.

In article ,
"mike regish" wrote:

It is an Air Reserve base with heavy C5 activity. You can't do TnG's there

really? (I'm not doubting you - I just found it surprising).
I've only landed there once and never noticed that restriction.

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Bob Noel
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Last I looked in the AFD it says no touch and goes-low approaches only. You
can full stop there if you are going to the Metropolitan Airport.

mike
"Bob Noel" wrote in message
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In article ,
"mike regish" wrote:

It is an Air Reserve base with heavy C5 activity. You can't do TnG's
there

really? (I'm not doubting you - I just found it surprising).
I've only landed there once and never noticed that restriction.

--
Bob Noel
Looking for a sig the
lawyers will hate

"mike regish" wrote in message
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It is an Air Reserve base with heavy C5 activity. You can't do TnG's there
and the Metropolitan activity is small in comparison to C5 activity.


It's C-5, not C5.

Hi Steve.

I see you haven't changed at all...

mike

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"mike regish" wrote in message
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It is an Air Reserve base with heavy C5 activity. You can't do TnG's
there and the Metropolitan activity is small in comparison to C5
activity.


It's C-5, not C5.

"Skylune" wrote in message

DAMN: the subsidies are enormous, as every informed person knows....

If this is the basis of your information, then every MIS-informed person
knows....



http://www.faa.gov/airports_airtraff...rants_2005.pdf

No amount of actual data or reasoning will ever convince private pilots
that the paltry couple of hundred million dollars generated by AV gas
taxes per year doesn't cover the cost of the grants and FAA services
absorbed by GA.

For a group that likes to consider itself technical and scientific-minded,
this is astonishing. (Well, actually not, based on the other nonsense put
out by some GA groups on safety, cost, convenience, etc.)

Skylune wrote:
No amount of actual data or reasoning will ever convince private pilots
that the paltry couple of hundred million dollars generated by AV gas
taxes per year doesn't cover the cost of the grants and FAA services
absorbed by GA.

For a group that likes to consider itself technical and scientific-minded,
this is astonishing. (Well, actually not, based on the other nonsense put
out by some GA groups on safety, cost, convenience, etc.)

Flying is not a science...it's an art.

:OP

Jay B

"Jay B" wrote in message
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Skylune wrote:
No amount of actual data or reasoning will ever convince private pilots
that the paltry couple of hundred million dollars generated by AV gas
taxes per year doesn't cover the cost of the grants and FAA services
absorbed by GA.

For a group that likes to consider itself technical and
scientific-minded,
this is astonishing. (Well, actually not, based on the other nonsense
put
out by some GA groups on safety, cost, convenience, etc.)

Flying is not a science...it's an art.

:OP

Some pilots are Rembrandt's, others are Picasso's.

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Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO (MTJ)