"Skylune" wrote in message
lkaboutaviation.com...
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.

I'm glad you used the term absorbed, rather than consumed.

My point is that the expenses are incurred primarily for the benefit of
airlines. A new runway eight feet thick was not designed with a Piper
Cherokee in mind, yet you feel the Cherokee is expected just as much to use
that runway as the 747 it was designed for.


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.)

When the data presented is factually wrong (ORH is not a GA airport, neither
is Westover AFB or Barnes), what do you expect when people call for 'GA
paying it's fair share'?