The subsidies to GA are MASSIVE

"Bob Noel" wrote in message
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Why feed the troll?


I find making sport of Skylune to be amusing.

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"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote:

Why feed the troll?

I find making sport of Skylune to be amusing.

Bah - it's too easy

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"Skylune" wrote in message
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Now that I have again provided the amount of annual funding deriving from
GA fuel taxes (including AV GAS and Jet A), compare that to 2005 capital
grants to airports by looking at the ACTUAL 2005 DATA below. (Note that
these figures DO NOT include the $150K annual operating subsidy that many
GA airports receive.)

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

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




If anyone is serious about analysing this, here is a list of part 139
certified airports:

http://www.faa.gov/airports_airtraff...atus_table.xls

Part 139 certification is required to handle scheduled service over 30
passengers. It's also the basis for determining eligibility for most federal
grants.

In Massachusetts: Barnes, Westover, and Worcester are all part 139
certified, yet lune tries to call them GA airports.

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

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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.

"Matt Whiting" wrote:

Any attention is better than no attention,

The motto on every troll's wall.

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"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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"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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Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO (MTJ)

"Bob Noel" wrote in message
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In article . net,
"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote:

Why feed the troll?

I find making sport of Skylune to be amusing.

Bah - it's too easy

"Like shooting dairy cows with a scoped rifle" -- P.J. O"Rourke

Matt Barrow schrieb:

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

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

Stefan

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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"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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