Re: GA User Fees

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"Tarver Engineering" <jtarver@sierratel.com> wrote in message
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> "Steven P. McNicoll" <roncachamp@writeme.com> wrote in message
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> > "Tarver Engineering" <jtarver@sierratel.com> wrote in message
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> > > Weather accounts for 80% of part 121 delays and cancellations.
> > > Modernizing ATC could directly address that issue, purely by
> > > making information available to Controllers.
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> >
> > What ATC modernization would reduce weather delays?
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> By providing ATC with the NOAA satellite immages, ATC could access the
same
> information pilots already have online. The information is cheap (free)
and
> readily availble, but it is not from FAA.
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> > > Upgrading ATC could also address the number of airports served and off
> > > airways navigation; say with widespread Datalink capability.
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> > How so? We're doing that now, have been for a long time.
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> By providing widespread datalink capability ATC would have identical
> information as that derived from radar. This increases the area of ATC
> control cheaply and supports ADS-B.
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> > > The Airport at Burbank spent a fortune making space for a new runway
> only
> > > to have locals kill the plan. There is far more of a barrier to
> building
> > > runways than just them being needed.
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> > Fine. If the locals are content with the delays there's no need to
> increase
> > capacity.
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> There is exacly the attitude that is bringing Privatization to ATC.
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> > > Money is one thing privatization could bring to the system.
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> > How?
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> A Privatized ATC could sell paper to fund improvements. This of couse
could
> not work under the current system of never delivering.
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> John
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Selling paper is nothing more than transfering debt. Instead of gov debt it
is now corporate debt that again must be paid for by some means. User fee
is the same thing as a new tax. Reforming the problems in the current
system would be better than creating a whole new list of problems many of
which might totally unanticipated and create many more problems than they
solve. This is not the place for if we have a problem we can't fix, let's
create one we can so we can take credit for it.