Not user fees anymore, service fees...

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

"Blueskies" wrote in message
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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


3rd and 2nd class cost the same from my examiner...

Funny how you folks picked up on the medical processing fee, but no-one is talking about the other increases also. If
this were to be an equitable deal, then the registration costs would be based on the aircraft cost, or weight, number of
passengers, or some other normalizing criteria. $130 for a 747 is crazy if that is the same as what it costs for a Cub!

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"Blueskies" wrote:

Funny how you folks picked up on the medical processing fee, but no-one is
talking about the other increases also. If
this were to be an equitable deal, then the registration costs would be based
on the aircraft cost, or weight, number of
passengers, or some other normalizing criteria. $130 for a 747 is crazy if
that is the same as what it costs for a Cub!

Is there more paperwork to register a 747 than a piper cub?

--
Bob Noel
(goodness, please trim replies!!!)

Blueskies wrote:



Medical insurance covers the FAA medical?


Mine does (Blue Cross).

Happy Flying!
Scott Skylane

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"NW_Pilot" wrote in message
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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.



Medical insurance covers the FAA medical?


Well he has to pay the AME's fee, It covers all the extra stuff that is
required of him all them office visits, pokes and prods, lab fees, and
tests! Once he can no longer get 100% medical coverage he is done would make
him go broke.

"NW_Pilot" wrote in
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Well he has to pay the AME's fee, It covers all the extra stuff that
is required of him all them office visits, pokes and prods, lab fees,
and tests! Once he can no longer get 100% medical coverage he is done
would make him go broke.

I believe one of the larger AME costs is recurrency required to maintain
their AME status (travel, lodging, etc.)

"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!)




It look like the AOPA is OK with this bill and 'fee structure'. It also looks like a lot of folks were OK with it at
Oshkosh. All sorts of AOPA 'No User Fees' support H.R.2881 stickers on shirts and things... AOPA will not be getting a
renewal from me this year. http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsite...0801house.html

John Godwin wrote:

As it stands now, my costs run around $200 per year for my class 2
medical. Add to that the delays and "hoop jumping" each year, I have to
consider hanging up my spurs and consider LSA.


As everyone knows, this is only one of many ways the cost of personal
flying has spiraled upward in recent years. Insurance, fuel,
maintenance (and the difficulty of finding *good* maintenance), yada,
yada.....

All that, and the TSA crap on top of it all......I *DID* hang it up a
couple of years ago, and I haven't even thought much about LSA, which,
in my mind, doesn't really make anything much better. You still need
insurance, hangar, fuel, yada, yada.

I'm out. You gotta' "know when to hold 'em, and when to fold 'em".