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In article 4UO9e.5395$r53.732@attbi_s21, Jay Honeck wrote:
Why is aviation in France statistically out of proportion with its population, as compared with the US, if NOT because of cost? Cost is certainly one of the most important factors, but I wager even if avgas was tax free in France, you'd still not see the activity level you get in the US (due to more reliable and cheaper methods of convenient high speed transportation, and the shorter distances). Case in point: aviation isn't really any cheaper in the Isle of Man, but there are quite a lot of privately owned planes given our small (78000) population - we have two active GA airports. This is because you can't drive or take a fast train to Britain and Ireland's cities due to 60nm of open water. Now compare League City, Texas, which has a population at least as large as ours (if not larger) by now - which elected to allow its only airport to have houses built on it, even though it could have got 90% Federal funding for the airport. -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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