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03-21-2013, 03:26 AM

BizPilot

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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

03-21-2013, 04:36 AM

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Done , took about 5 mins people ...

03-22-2013, 06:20 PM

essayons

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Nope.

Shared sacrifice.

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).

03-22-2013, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by rickair7777

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.

03-22-2013, 09:29 PM

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today is 03-22. You have 94K. Facebook your petition and/or get AOPA involved and you will have 150K by April

03-22-2013, 09:47 PM

Gjn290

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Originally Posted by satpak77

today is 03-22. You have 94K. Facebook your petition and/or get AOPA involved and you will have 150K by April

Just to clarify, they need 94K they don't have 94K.

03-22-2013, 09:58 PM

Beaver Hunter

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Nope from me. Tax payer rip off. Most of these towers handle few moments at night. We have to stop the flow of my tax money at some point.
I am tired of the kingdom getting larger each day. No more tax takers.

03-23-2013, 03:46 AM

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Originally Posted by satpak77

get AOPA involved

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.

03-23-2013, 06:07 AM

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Originally Posted by essayons

Shared sacrifice.

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?