Looks like I picked the wrong week to try and solo...
Ping.
This administration? Stupid, stupid, stupid, arrogant dumbarse in an evil way - can’t be gone soon enough. Words can’t begin to field a rant applicable and descriptive enough. Can’t begin...can’t beg...
Obama and his Marxist buddies are coming after you. They will not quit until either you or they are room temperature.
That’s the point of the fee. No private aviation.
The implication to this fee is that it would be collected upon use of services that currently the FAA knows about. That means, if its IFR, the $100 would apply. VFR flights would not pay the fee.
The ramification of that is that many IFR flights of today would just proceed under VFR. Those flights that are debatable today VFR or IFR, would proceed to go VFR to avoid the fee. This will lead to more accidents where a VFR flight has strayed, or skud-runned, into weather non-conducive to VFR flight.
Typically, a cross-country IFR flight involves numerous fuel stops. Each one, as far as the FAA is concerned, is a separate IFR flight, as you stop for an hour or so to fuel-up, bladder-down, etc. If each IFR flight is charged, it will lead to more flights running down their tanks to vapors, and thus lead to more fuel-exhaustion accidents.
Hint to AOPA cocmmunications staff: if you are going to write a press release you might want to once mention that your organization is the Aircraf Owners and Pilots Association, since 99% of the public has no clue what AOPA is.