Pilot's Political Orientation

Judah wrote:

Put it in perspective.

At MOST, the 100-hour per year pilot uses 100 hours of ATC time per year.

The Airline pilot, who flies back and forth across the country twice a
day, uses 100 hours of ATC time in about a week.

Not possible. That would grossly violate the flight-time limitations in Part
121. In any case, the airline pilot is a surrogate for the airline company
and the hundreds of paying customer using those ATC services.



If I remember correctly (as quoted by the AOPA) there are about 250,000
100-hour per year GA planes.

There are equally as many 100-hour per week Airlines.

The airline fleet is probably somewhere around 4,000 aircraft with an average
daily ultilization of 12-14 hours per day.



The only real way to fairly and equitably split the cost of the system is
to charge for the time used. It is probably not really practical to do
that for a variety of reasons. But gas consumption probably delivers a
good measure of time a plane spends in the air, and as such using the
system, it is probably a fairly good place to put the tax to cover that
cost.

You seem to be complaining that an approach controller at BDL whose
salary is mostly being paid by the 350 Airline flights per day he
sequences in should not also provide sequencing a few times a year to
Skylark nearby if they would publish a GPS approach and paint some lines
on the runway.

Hmmmmm...

And perhaps the police who are patrolling my neighborhood shouldn't help
you if you get mugged and are from out of town?

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"Matthew S. Whiting" wrote:

The average G/A guy who flys a Cessna 182 100 hours a year doesn't
begin to pay for the system.


But he doesn't need much of the system either. He needs a few grass
runways, and a good map and compass! :-)

Matt

Well, although that may be true for you, there are lots of Cessna 182's
that make a lot of instrument approaches at airports with control
towers. Or, even instrument approaches at airports without control
towers; all supported by center equipment, controllers, FAA approach
designers, expensive flight inspections, etc., etc.