On Jul 20, 5:01*pm, Mxsmanic wrote:
Mike writes:
You'll typically have more problems with the airport itself rather than from
ATC. *Some large airports charge hefty landing and ramp fees, so you may
wind up with a $150 or so charge you hadn't expected. *This is how they
discourage the little guys from landing.

How do they organize the payment? *Are they waiting for you on the ramp, or do
you have to go to an office or something to pay up? *Do you pay on arrival or
before you leave again? *How do you find out the charges in advance? *(I don't
recall seeing them in the directory or even on Airnav.)

A lot of times they only charge you if you use the FBO, which is
everytime unless you're just doing a touch and go. Sometimes they
waive the fee if you buy a ton of gas (like literally a ton),
sometimes they only charge a fee if the aircraft is certified to weigh
anymore than a certain amount. It all really depends. In my
experience, the fee is very informal, and if you REALLY wanted to get
out of paying, you could probably just take off and I don't think much
would happen. Sometimes my company flies to large airports which have
landing fees, but we only ever go to the cargo apron and drop off, so
we never visit a FBO, and therefore never pay anything. I know for a
fact we flew into Toronto a few months ago, dropped off at some cargo
hangar, filed our flight plan back to KYIP, then took right back off.
Later I looked it up, and there is indeed a landing fee there that we
most certainly did not pay. All though they may have called one of our
dispatchers to collect the fee...