GA expected to cough up funds for the airlines and FAA?!!

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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]AOPA EXPOSES AIRLINE POWER GRAB TO CONGRESS
[/FONT][FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]AOPA members and members of Congress are on the same page—literally. That's because AOPA this week sent every single senator and representative a copy of AOPA President Phil Boyer's May editorial denouncing the airlines' attempted power grab. "The airlines want to remove Congress as the FAA's 'board of directors,' take over ATC, and make GA pay for it," said Boyer. "This is a battle that will play out over the next 18 months, and Congress will be in the thick of it." Boyer sent a reprint of the editorial from the May AOPA Pilot magazine to Congress with a personal note, saying, "The airlines and the FAA have been quite vocal in their call for a need to change the way the air traffic system of the Federal Aviation Administration is funded.... We'll all be in this together over the next year and a half, so stay tuned!" See AOPA Online.[/FONT]

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