GA User Fees DOA, Lobby Groups Remind President
Politicians like to use the term “dead on arrival” to refer to unpalatable bills, and that’s how 116 bipartisan members of the House earlier this year desc

Politicians like to use the term “dead on arrival” to refer to unpalatable bills, and that’s how 116 bipartisan members of the House earlier this year described a trial balloon floated by the Obama Administration on user fees for general aviation.

When the President called for a new $100 per-flight tax for turbine aircraft flying on IFR flight plans last month, part of his plan to address the nation’s deficit and job crisis, GA found itself oddly aligned with the nation’s airlines in opposing the proposal.