Originally published at: https://avweb.com/aviation-news/airports-object-ads-b-landing-fee-limits/
The issue centers on House ALERT Act language included alongside broader ADS-B safety proposals.
AAAE is wolf in sheep’s clothing using ADS-B safety airport projects to cover for collecting landing fees. Come on Congress, dont let them get away with this self serving cover story!
Not only is it the wolf in sheep’s clothing, ADS-B cannot be used for fee collection reliably. It is too easily spoofed, especially 978 MHz, but 1090 as well. I know this as my N number frequently appears on ADS-B reports flying around in the west and southwest, when my airplane is sitting in a hangar 2000 miles away or flying on the opposite coast at the same time. Who gets the bill for a flight that originates in Sacramento, terminates in Palm Desert, while 15 minutes earlier departing Harford, CT for Manassas, VA? We have enough problems with airports using AIP money for unsustainable and unneeded projects, standards intended to limit competition on the field and steer GA money to their pet FBOs. This will be one last nail in the GA coffin.
ADS-B was always designed primarily as a means to collect user fees disguised as a safety measure, nothing more and definitely nothing to do with safety and everything to do with spying on US citizens. It was copied from the European surveillance system that didn’t bother to try to disguise it as safety since they are already full-blown socialist/communist constructs. Obama admin lied about the cost of maintaining the LORAN system as being too expensive to maintain at 437M/yr and pushed the ADS-B on us as a cheaper solution which is on the order of an average of 3 Billion/yr. General aviation was just a willing group of useful idiots helping promote their own destruction with help from the AOPA and others promoting the takeover.
Landing fees will have a corrosive effect on GA. Making learnning to fly and every day usage of the airways more expensive is not growth oriented.
The fees do not seem small to a fairly junior pilot.
Maybe AOPA can chip in and help students pay a fee or two with the money from the sale of the Citation M2 they’ve been riding around in for years or they could pony up some of their commissions they get from referring students to certain lenders making 15% interest in students.
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