In article ,
Larry Dighera wrote:

Eight years until grid lock:


FAA FACT SHEET PROMOTES AVIATION USER FEES

The FAA is painting a dismal picture of its own performance in an
unvarnished attempt to gather support for its controversial
proposed aviation user-fee funding system. In a fact sheet
(http://www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/...fm?newsId=8807)
released last week, the agency ties the funding package directly
to modernization of airspace management, which has been nicknamed
NextGen. "The Administration's NextGen Financing Reform Act, sent
to Congress in February, will provide a stable, cost-based revenue
stream to fund the transition to NextGen," the fact sheet reads.
"The current tax system expires Sept. 30, so Congress must act
now." Without airspace modernization, the fact sheet warns, the
system "will reach gridlock by 2015."
http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#195188
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Their "fact sheet" doesn't mention the $150 million they are spending on
a new control tower at La Guardia! What are they making it from?
Gold=plated unobtanium?

They also don't mention that FAA Administrator Marian Blakey doesn't
even know about widespread use of GPS in aviation!

Nor do they mention that several vendors already offer systems that
perform the same functions as NEXRAD -- at a fraction of the cost and no
cost to FAA!