by "Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATcox.net Jan 25, 2006 at 01:34 PM


"Skylune" wrote in message
lkaboutaviation.com...
I apologize for forgetting to post the link to Nav Canada's user fee
handbook. Here it is:


http://www.navcanada.ca/NavCanada.as...in\default.xml


Thanks Lune I'd never looked at the Nav Canada fee schdule before. It
looks
to me like the aircraft that most annoy you aren't charged by $75 per
year

unless they are at a few very large airports.

My question is, do our neighbors to the North have an aviation tax on
fuel

as well or is this the entire funding method cost?

I think that's just the annual fee component. Additional fees apply for
tower services, etc.

But, I won't claim to be expert in the Nav Canada system, or that I'm
willing to read the 45 page user fee guide (hyperlink avaiable on the link
I attached) and try and make comparisons.

Do you think the AOPA has done these types of comparisions before going
hysterical over the prospect of user fees? Or are they just shooting from
the hip, as usual?

I happen to think that Boyer's crew has (correctly, IMO) surmised that the
FAA is going after GA for additional $$. That's what Poole of the Reason
Foundation has been saying for years, and what was just quantified by the
BTS (the subsidy comparison per 100,000 miles travelled which showed GA as
the second most subsidized form of travel behind only AMTRAK).

If it is only $75/year for the little guys, wouldn't the AOPA look pretty
silly.....