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...if you care, understand and agree with the concern here - please use the above and within 30 seconds make your Congressmen aware that you care and must be heard. You actually send the letters from here within those 30 seconds. You do not have to be a EAA member.
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EAA is calling on all members (and non) to get involved in fighting one of the most significant long-term threats to the general aviation community ever proposed. Contact your elected representatives and urge them to oppose the ATC privatization proposal contained in the Aviation Innovation, Reform and Reauthorization (AIRR) Act, H.R. 4441.
The proposal would separate the nation’s air traffic control system from the FAA to be managed and operated by a not-for-profit corporation. The corporation would be run by a board of directors comprised of system stakeholders economically dominated by airlines and other commercial and labor interests, leaving general aviation to be marginalized over time. This means that your access to airspace, the availability of ATC services, funding for rural airports, charting, weather services and flight service, will all be at the discretion of a private industry board heavily weighted in terms of influence to the airlines and associated interests. This is not just about whether or not there are user fees for GA, which currently there are not. It is about the future preservation and health of the entire GA system of access and infrastructure we enjoy today.
Thank you - Wayne for AAFO!!!...and thank you EAA!!!
Mitch Carley
...if you care, understand and agree with the concern here - please use the above and within 30 seconds make your Congressmen aware that you care and must be heard. You actually send the letters from here within those 30 seconds. You do not have to be a EAA member.
If someone can post this elsewhere - please do so!
EAA is calling on all members (and non) to get involved in fighting one of the most significant long-term threats to the general aviation community ever proposed. Contact your elected representatives and urge them to oppose the ATC privatization proposal contained in the Aviation Innovation, Reform and Reauthorization (AIRR) Act, H.R. 4441.
The proposal would separate the nation’s air traffic control system from the FAA to be managed and operated by a not-for-profit corporation. The corporation would be run by a board of directors comprised of system stakeholders economically dominated by airlines and other commercial and labor interests, leaving general aviation to be marginalized over time. This means that your access to airspace, the availability of ATC services, funding for rural airports, charting, weather services and flight service, will all be at the discretion of a private industry board heavily weighted in terms of influence to the airlines and associated interests. This is not just about whether or not there are user fees for GA, which currently there are not. It is about the future preservation and health of the entire GA system of access and infrastructure we enjoy today.
Thank you - Wayne for AAFO!!!...and thank you EAA!!!
Mitch Carley