$25 per Flight for turbine aircraft.

[Amazon 7]

Sooo are you ready for jump prices to jump a whole bunch.

I know its a repost.. but lets put it whereMORE people will actually sound off ...let them know how you feel or that $25 per FLIGHT will soon be a reality for EVERY turbine DZ.

https://www.aopa.org/faafundingdebate/petition_form.cfm

YES you can sign it without being an AOPA member.

[floridadiver81 0]

signed....i was the 46,969th person to sign it!

"Age has absolutely nothing to do with knowledge, learning, respect, attitude, or personality." -yardhippie
"Fight the air, and the air will kick your ass!!! "-Specialkaye

[Gawain 0]

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signed....i was the 46,969th person to sign it!

Wow, it told me I was the 41,703rd...

So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh
Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright
'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life
Make light!

[Amazon 7]

Its up by about 40 since I signed it.. at 46,961

I hate spurious user fees...I could see it for all the cross country business or commercial learjets.. but for skydiving????

Another really stupid attack by run away bureaucrats.

[Keith 0]

Thank you for signing AOPA's petition against user fees. Your voice has been added to the 41,721 others who have already signed this petition.

Keith

Don't Fuck with me Keith - J. Mandeville

[Keith 0]

Yeah, it told me I was the 41,722nd person to sign? Maybe the counter is being overloaded

Keith

Don't Fuck with me Keith - J. Mandeville

[leroydb 0]

41,767

Leroy


..I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio...

[Scoop 0]

$25 Thats cheap!

[Amazon 7]

Uh.. that is added ONTO the jump ticketrs of the people in the airplane...a surcharge above and beyond what is already being charged.
Our Porter with 8 people would have to split that for EACH jump.. as well as the regular jump ticket price...

[Gawain 0]

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$25 Thats cheap!

Per flight! Take SD Alabama's King Air, usually with 8 or 10 people per lift on a Friday afternoon, that's $25/jump instead of $22 (I'm rounding up). Then, they take a loss if they only have a lift with 7 folks on board. If I were Jon, I'd close up and wait for the weekend. On top of $4/gal for Jet A in some areas...

So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh
Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright
'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life
Make light!

[Scoop 0]

Oh I see. Sorry. I'm talking out my arse then. I thought $25 was total ticket cost

[Amazon 7]

Its already at $25 at many DZ in this country. This would just be an add on to pay for improved bureacratic salaries....uh I mean imporvements to air safety...uh I mean airports..... you get the idea


FAA bill
Raise general aviation gasoline taxes 366 percent to 70.1 cents per gallon (jet fuel is increased from 21.9 to 70.1 cents per gallon)

Allow the FAA to impose user fee charges on GA aircraft flying in Class B airspace
Allow the FAA to charge landing fees at some 215 airports
Charge the airlines user fees, instead of taxes, and reduce the amount the airlines pay to the federal government
Create an airline-dominated board to help set user fee rates and run the air traffic control system


Senate bill
$25 per flight fee for turbine-powered aircraft flying in controlled airspace to raise money for air traffic control modernization trust fund
Tax increase on Jet A for non-commercial aviation, up to 49 cents-per-gallon.
Tax decrease for the airlines, removing current 4.3 cents per gallon airline fuel tax
Avgas tax remains the same
Industry-government board to direct spending from the ATC trust fund
Allow the FAA to set fees and spending with no recourse to Congress or the courts. (View the text of the Next Generation Air Transportation System Financing Reform Act of 2007.)

[Dangerousmind86 0]

I signed. Somehting like #49,128

That shit pisses me off!

ANDY

[shropshire 0]

I see BASE in most of our futures.........

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[ltdiver 3]

Number 41,998.

Thanks for posting this.

ltdiver

Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon

[Elisha 1]

42,129

[iambeav2 0]

42,358

...it's not the fact that you don't appreciate what you have until it's gone...it's the fact that you don't appreciate what you have until someone appreciates it for you!

[freethefly 6]

42,453rd person to sign

"...And once you're gone, you can't come back
When you're out of the blue and into the black."
Neil Young

[jonstark 8]

42,664

Keep 'em coming folks. We really really don't want user fees. They will be the death of general aviation.

jon

[Broke 0]

Were allready paying 25 per jump ticket

Divot your source for all things Hillbilly.
Anvil Brother 84
SCR 14192

[mnealtx 0]

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Were allready paying 25 per jump ticket

And if this bill goes through, you and everyone else on the load will be splitting a $25 user charge... every load of every day.

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

[Broke 0]

Did the goverment find something more useless to waste their money on?

Divot your source for all things Hillbilly.
Anvil Brother 84
SCR 14192

[mnealtx 0]

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Did the goverment find something more useless to waste their money on?

Don't they always??

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

[popsjumper 2]

42,972

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[Amazon 7]

Kewl.. over 1000 in one day....but 42,000 is still a paltry number when it comes to bureucrats we need a LOT more support to kill this thing.