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What will user fees do to small towered airports
I am wondering what user fees will do my local airport. ORH (Worcester
Regional Airport) is a towered airport with four commercial flights *WEEKLY*. Needless to say, the airport is struggling. If user fees go into effect, will each take-off and landing incur a user fee? There are ten uncontrolled fields within 25 miles of ORH. My guess is that the piston singles currently based in Worcester will depart for one of the others. When I was training, I remember doing 20 touch and gos one day. What would that have cost me? I suspect once the traffic is gone, the tower will go too, but that will be too late. Anyone have any insight on this? |
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"Greg Farris" wrote in message ... In article DqePf.5119$ci1.162@trndny08, says... When I was training, I remember doing 20 touch and gos one day. What would that have cost me? $0. Landing fees are not usually charged for aircraft based at a field. But each take-off was an operation, as was each landing. As I understand it, user fees will be based on ATC usage, meaning these 20 tough and gos were 40 uses of ATC. What type of aircraft are the four "commercial" flights? MD-80 If they are charged for the service, at least the tower at your airport can claim they are bringing *something* into the system, instead of just costing money, the way it is now. It really depends on what type of accounting mentality accompanies the proposed fee structure. The simple fact of bringing some more revenue into the system is not in itself going to cause reductions in service, but if there is an accounting structure that evaluates towers to see which are not "pulling their own weight" then that's different. I think the fees will scare off the piston single traffic, which currently makes up the bulk of the operations. GF |
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I have not seen any charge rates yet for tower or IFR operations.. maybe
someone else has? We'll just have to wait and see how they divy up the users charge. BT "Steve Foley" wrote in message ... "Greg Farris" wrote in message ... In article DqePf.5119$ci1.162@trndny08, says... When I was training, I remember doing 20 touch and gos one day. What would that have cost me? $0. Landing fees are not usually charged for aircraft based at a field. But each take-off was an operation, as was each landing. As I understand it, user fees will be based on ATC usage, meaning these 20 tough and gos were 40 uses of ATC. What type of aircraft are the four "commercial" flights? MD-80 If they are charged for the service, at least the tower at your airport can claim they are bringing *something* into the system, instead of just costing money, the way it is now. It really depends on what type of accounting mentality accompanies the proposed fee structure. The simple fact of bringing some more revenue into the system is not in itself going to cause reductions in service, but if there is an accounting structure that evaluates towers to see which are not "pulling their own weight" then that's different. I think the fees will scare off the piston single traffic, which currently makes up the bulk of the operations. GF |
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On 2006-03-07, Steve Foley wrote:
Anyone have any insight on this? The way it works here is that you (usually) don't pay any fees if you're based at that airport. It's only visiting aircraft that pays landing fees. Light GA doesn't pay any en-route fees at all. -- Dylan Smith, Port St Mary, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Oolite-Linux: an Elite tribute: http://oolite-linux.berlios.de Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net |
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On 2006-03-08, Greg Farris wrote:
Even IFR? Even IFR. There are currently no charges if your aircraft has an MTOW of less than 2000kg (about 4100lbs). -- Dylan Smith, Port St Mary, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Oolite-Linux: an Elite tribute: http://oolite-linux.berlios.de Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net |
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On 2006-03-08, Greg Farris wrote:
Well, at least there's some silver lining in the UK!! I have a friend there who tells me he rents a C-172 wet for £200/hr - that's almost $400!! Please tell me he's confused. He may well do, I don't know. We pay less than half of that for a Grumman Cheetah on tach hours (a much more fun plane to fly). It's still too much though. -- Dylan Smith, Port St Mary, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Oolite-Linux: an Elite tribute: http://oolite-linux.berlios.de Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net |
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