Maybe I look at it strangely?
When you pay to park your car in a parking lot is it on private
property? When you pay to park your plane is it on private property? My take
on it is, if it is being (car or plane) parked on public property funded by
taxpayers it has already been paid for.
Heck I hate toll roads! Now if a private company wants to build a road
and charge a toll , fine. When tax dollars pay for the construction it just
really gets my goat. I don't mind some sort of tax, but I hate being
"double" taxed . I just do not see taxes funding airports and then the
airport turning around charging someone a landing fee or what have you ,
when the Federal tax dollar supports the airport. If the airport wants to
charge for it's use, then it needs to be a private airport and not publicly
funded. IMHO, a 2 buck charge at a funded airport is 2 bucks to much .
Is it just me or does anyone else feel they are being ripped off when
airports do this? Seems to me they could do more biz by not having landing
and parking fees. More pilots would stop there and use their services
wouldn't they? I think the fees just add to the slow death of GA in an area.

Patrick
student SP
aircraft structural mech

"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message

I wouldn't call a $35.00 landing/parking/handling fee by Signature the
only FBO small GA friendly
Is $35 really unfriendly in the NYC metro area? I haven't lived in the
area for almost 10 years but even then it cost over $20 to park a car for
the day in prime midtown spot. Why would it not cost the same or more to
park an aircraft?