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    Senior Member cancidas's Avatar
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    No User Fees!!

    at least for now, the fight goes on. from AOPA ePilot:

    No user fees for now, Congress extends current FAA funding
    By Warren D. Morningstar

    Congress has once again extended the current FAA funding system, preserving the status quo on aviation taxes until Sept. 30.

    “The good news is that aviation fuel taxes won’t change during the summer flying season, and there are no new user fees,” said AOPA President Phil Boyer. “And this extension will let airports spend all of their Airport Improvement Program grants during this construction season.

    “The bad news is that user fees still remain a possibility,” Boyer said. “The administration and the airlines have not given up, and until Congress passes and the president signs a new FAA funding bill without fees, we remain at risk.”

    http://www.aopa.org/advocacy/article...26funding.html
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    Re: No User Fees!!

    Yes, but it really is just delaying the problems even further by another year. Hopefully Congress actually votes on something that benefits GA when September 30th comes up instead of what they did this past year. IMHO, this really just allows us to breath a sigh of relief for a very short period of time. Certainly better than the alternative, but not the best either. We can't win them all, can we.
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