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Old September 15th 06, 07:18 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Jay B
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Default The subsidies to GA are MASSIVE


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

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Old September 16th 06, 03:10 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Matt Barrow
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Default The subsidies to GA are MASSIVE


"Jay B" wrote in message
ps.com...

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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Montrose, CO (MTJ)


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Old September 16th 06, 03:15 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Stefan
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Default The subsidies to GA are MASSIVE

Matt Barrow schrieb:

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


I wasn't aware that Picasso and Rembrandt ever owned pilots.

Stefan
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Old September 16th 06, 04:00 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Jose[_1_]
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Default The subsidies to GA are MASSIVE

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

As a free artist, I don't belong to anyone.

Jose
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Old September 16th 06, 08:15 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Dan Luke
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Default The subsidies to GA are MASSIVE


"Matt Barrow" wrote:

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


Which one do you belong to?


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Old September 17th 06, 12:01 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Orval Fairbairn
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Default The subsidies to GA are MASSIVE

In article ,
"Matt Barrow" wrote:

"Jay B" wrote in message
ps.com...

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.


.... And some are Thomas Kincades.
 




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