Not user fees anymore, service fees...

"Paul kgyy" wrote in message
ups.com...
Process a medical, $42.00 (each time!)

Ouch!!!! Looks like they really want to kill general aviation.

Naw, that'll just encourage more pilots to skip the medical.

My last medical cost around $175.

That $175 was what the AME that I used charges.

Near as I can tell, he was doing a very nice business.

Matt B.
--
"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest
complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it
be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they
delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to
others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of
their lives." - Tolstoy

Matt Barrow wrote:
"Paul kgyy" wrote in message
ups.com...
Process a medical, $42.00 (each time!)

Ouch!!!! Looks like they really want to kill general aviation.

Naw, that'll just encourage more pilots to skip the medical.

My last medical cost around $175.

That $175 was what the AME that I used charges.

Near as I can tell, he was doing a very nice business.

Matt B.

So then you next on if the fee goes into effect will cost $217.

"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in message
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Matt Barrow wrote:
"Paul kgyy" wrote in message
ups.com...
Process a medical, $42.00 (each time!)

Ouch!!!! Looks like they really want to kill general aviation.

Naw, that'll just encourage more pilots to skip the medical.

My last medical cost around $175.

That $175 was what the AME that I used charges.

Near as I can tell, he was doing a very nice business.

Matt B.

So then you next on if the fee goes into effect will cost $217.

As a portion of all my flying expenses, this is chump change.

"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in message ...
Matt Barrow wrote:
"Paul kgyy" wrote in message
ups.com...
Process a medical, $42.00 (each time!)

Ouch!!!! Looks like they really want to kill general aviation.

Naw, that'll just encourage more pilots to skip the medical.

My last medical cost around $175.

That $175 was what the AME that I used charges.

Near as I can tell, he was doing a very nice business.

Matt B.

So then you next on if the fee goes into effect will cost $217.


My last 2nd class cost $75...

Matt Barrow wrote:

That $175 was what the AME that I used charges.

Near as I can tell, he was doing a very nice business.

I old AME charged $120 but gave a 50% discount to pilots.

"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
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Matt Barrow wrote:

That $175 was what the AME that I used charges.

Near as I can tell, he was doing a very nice business.

I old AME charged $120 but gave a 50% discount to pilots.

That's nice.

Ron Natalie wrote:
Matt Barrow wrote:

That $175 was what the AME that I used charges.

Near as I can tell, he was doing a very nice business.

I old AME charged $120 but gave a 50% discount to pilots.

Ha, ha, ha... That is funny!

Matt

In rec.aviation.homebuilt NW_Pilot wrote:

"Blueskies" wrote in message
et...
http://www.avweb.com/newspics/FAA_service_fees.pdf

Register your plane, $130.00

Process a medical, $42.00 (each time!)

Ouch!!!! Looks like they really want to kill general aviation.

Can't see how an increase in the cost of processing a medical is aimed
at killing GA. Commercial aviation also has to have pilots and those
pilots have to have current medicals.

Now granted the commercials pilots medical fees may be picked up by
his employer. Or at least the commercial pilot could take the fees
as a deduction on his income taxes.

Doesn't a first or second class medical (as needed by a commercial
pilot) cost a lot more than a third?


--
Frank Stutzman
Bonanza N494B "Hula Girl"
Boise, ID

"Frank Stutzman" wrote in message
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In rec.aviation.homebuilt NW_Pilot
wrote:

"Blueskies" wrote in message
et...
http://www.avweb.com/newspics/FAA_service_fees.pdf

Register your plane, $130.00

Process a medical, $42.00 (each time!)

Ouch!!!! Looks like they really want to kill general aviation.

Can't see how an increase in the cost of processing a medical is aimed
at killing GA. Commercial aviation also has to have pilots and those
pilots have to have current medicals.

Now granted the commercials pilots medical fees may be picked up by
his employer. Or at least the commercial pilot could take the fees
as a deduction on his income taxes.

Doesn't a first or second class medical (as needed by a commercial
pilot) cost a lot more than a third?


--
Frank Stutzman
Bonanza N494B "Hula Girl"
Boise, ID


Yea, but some pilots barly get by as it is. I know a one that has to go in
for a third class 3 times a year due to past mediacl issues he can barly
afford to fly as it is. he is thankfull that he has medial insurance.

NW_Pilot wrote:

Yea, but some pilots barly get by as it is. I know a one that has to
go in for a third class 3 times a year due to past mediacl issues he
can barly afford to fly as it is. he is thankfull that he has medial
insurance.


Your friend sounds like a perfect prospect for LSA.