Please sign the petition to keep TOWERS
03-21-2013 | 03:26 AM
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Please sign the petition to keep TOWERS
Please keep the towers open. We need 100,000 signatures by April 4th for the WH to comment on this matter.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pet...ation/3CsfLn46
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pet...ation/3CsfLn46
03-22-2013 | 06:31 PM
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Nope. I'm familiar with at least a dozen of those facilities and few if any really need a tower.
I might sign a selective petition targeting a few of the airports which have 121 service and significant bizjet/ga (like Hailey, ID).
I might sign a selective petition targeting a few of the airports which have 121 service and significant bizjet/ga (like Hailey, ID).
03-22-2013 | 09:20 PM
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I couldn't agree more with you. I said pretty much the same thing in the thread about the tower closures. No one agreed with me. Glad to see I'm not the only one who sees it that way.
03-23-2013 | 03:46 AM
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This. Working on it.
There are a great many facilities on the list that truly do need the controllers, more than not.
And Sequestration has nothing whatsoever to do with "shared sacrifice"...a rhetorical p.o.s. if there ever was one.
Regardless, the current regime pays absolutely no attention to these petitions. It does whatever it wants to do, no matter what.
There are a great many facilities on the list that truly do need the controllers, more than not.
And Sequestration has nothing whatsoever to do with "shared sacrifice"...a rhetorical p.o.s. if there ever was one.
Regardless, the current regime pays absolutely no attention to these petitions. It does whatever it wants to do, no matter what.
03-23-2013 | 06:07 AM
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It's not really a shared sacrifice when the controllers at these towers are unemployed in 2 weeks, it sounds like the burden of the FAA's budget cut is being put directly on their backs. A budget that is more than 2/3 paid for by taxes on aviation fuel and airline tickets vs out of the general treasury. The trust fund that pays for all of the FAA's operations has a cash balance of $10 billion.
Do people really think that putting these controllers on unemployment and eliminating air traffic services is really going to help the economy? How much is it going to cost in fuel when you're holding #2 for the approach and number 1 doesn't bother to cancel his IFR till he has the airplane buttoned up in the hangar?
Do people really think that putting these controllers on unemployment and eliminating air traffic services is really going to help the economy? How much is it going to cost in fuel when you're holding #2 for the approach and number 1 doesn't bother to cancel his IFR till he has the airplane buttoned up in the hangar?
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