REFLECTOR: FAA OUTRAGE: Increased taxes on General Aviation?

[vance atkinson]

SPREAD THE WORD TO ALL PILOTS !!

*IF THEY PULL THIS SHIT THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY !!!!!!!!!!*

    The stupidity never ends!

    Only the Obama government could come up with something so stupid.

    Your government at work! This ought to kill general aviation once
    and for all. Can't imagine something like this passing, but with the
    commies we have in charge, who knows. Next step will be fees for
    people who don't spend enough buying auto gas! Umm, you didn't drive
    15,000 miles this year? You owe us an additional $100. Will the
    number of toilet paper rolls used in a year be next?


      Babbitt Mulls Fees For Low-Time Pilots


        Money Collected Would Offset Fuel Taxes Not Paid By Pilots Who
        Don't Fly Regularly

    */_ANN April 1st Special Edition:_/*FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt
    is reportedly considering tacking a surcharge onto renewal fees paid
    by pilots. The surcharges would be based on the number of hours a
    pilot flies in any given year.

Due to decreasing revenues to the federal government, and because the 
President and Congress has asked all government agencies to come up with 
ways to not only save money, but to also increase revenues, the FAA has 
developed this fee scale for nearly ALL pilots, most of them holding 
GA-related certificates and ratings, with different annual renewal fees 
dependent upon ratings and endorsements and hours flown each year.
In an internal memo forwarded to ANN, the Administrator proposes a 
registration fee structure that begins with a basic registration fee of 
$20. For pilots logging from 0 to 99.9 hours annually in the previous 
calendar year there will be a $100 surcharge each renewal period. The 
FAA says the surcharge is intended to offset the revenue from Federal 
aviation fuel taxes that the pilot did NOT pay by not flying at least 
100 hours during the previous year.  all pilots, for the first time, 
will not only have to renew what was previously a lifetime certificate 
and pay annually, but will also have to keep a logbook and make entries 
for each flight to avoid the additional fees.
For pilots holding advanced ratings (beyond S.E.L. etc), the fees will 
be similar. However, Babbitt notes in an internal memo that all flight 
hours will not count in the hours requirement for this section of the 
new regulation.  For instance, in addition to paying for your S.E.L. 
rating every year, if you have an Instrument Rating, there will be an 
additional $10 annual charge for that rating as well as an additional 
surcharge of $100 if fewer than 10 hours of actual IFR flight are 
logged.  These 10 hours will count towards your annual total flight 
hours, but an Instrument Rated pilot could find him or herself in a 
situation where he or she flew 200 hours in a calendar year, but of 
them, only 9.5 were IFR, and is assessed an additional $100.

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Pilots who fly aircraft which run on mogas or other alternative fuels 
will also be assessed additional fees based on any STC on file with the 
FAA. Those will be in addition to the low-time surcharge. Sport Pilot 
fees begin at $10 for basic renewal, and the first surcharge is $50 for 
those flying under 100 hours.
EAA President Tom Poberezny called the proposal "just about the 
stupidest thing I've seen come down the pike since since Orville and 
Wilbur knocked together that first airplane in shed in Kitty Hawk in 
December." NBAA President and CEO Ed Bolen said the new fee structure is 
"simply outrageous! The monitoring will cause nightmares for pilots AND 
will be hard to prove if the FAA ever audits you as an individual 
pilot." However, several iPhone and iPad apps are reportedly already in 
development to automatically track your flight time and push that data 
to a federal government server.
For those who determine they are unable to afford the fee structure, the 
FAA does make a provision for terminating your pilot certificate 
privileges. Fees for termination, which are irrevocable, begin at $50 
for Sport Pilot, and increase based on additional ratings and endorsements.

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