URGENT ACTION NEEDED
A NOTIFICATION TO EAA MEMBERS
EAA President Tom Poberezny
The future of general aviation in the United States is at stake. Your voice and the voices of your friends and neighbors are needed now to fight the immediate threat of user fees.
"The first user fee is just the first step. This is serious business, and it's extremely important that members get involved and stay involved."
- Tom Poberezny, EAA President
Your action is required now to protect general aviation. Speak out against user fees. Contact your senators and representatives today. Voice support for House bill H.R. 2881, which would provide funding without user fees, and object to the user fees proposed in Senate bill S. 1300.
Your comments must be received by Congress before it returns to work September 7 after its summer holiday.
The time is NOW!
When your representatives and senators return after Labor Day, the debate on user fees for general aviation will have reached its climax, and lawmakers will develop a final bill to send to President Bush for signature within weeks, or even days.
Aviation's friends in Washington, D.C. urge you to act
At EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2007, eight members of Congress urged EAA members and other aviation enthusiasts to write their elected representatives and the administration.
"I urge general aviation pilots to stay in touch (with their elected leaders) and to be clear about the problems with general aviation user fees."
- Representative Sam Graves, R-Missouri
"We need to keep Congress from opening the door to a whole new bureaucracy that could hit general aviation hard in the years to come."
- Senator James Inhofe, R-Oklahoma
Act NOW!
Write your senators and representatives. EAA has provided sample letters to assist you. Don't delay - act to protect your participation in general aviation.
Airlines are ramping up pressure
The airlines are pulling out all the stops, reaching literally millions of their customers via extensive e-mail lists, in-flight publications, and closed-circuit TV advertisements in terminals. The message from their lobbying group, the Air Transport Association (ATA), is that general aviation is to blame for the airlines' financial and operational woes, that general aviation should pay considerably more for use of the nation's airspace and federal services, and that the airlines should pay less.
To confront airline rhetoric and lobbying, every participant in general aviation must rally against user fees.
For sample letters to send to Congress, visit www.EAA.org/govt/sample_letters.html
To follow EAA's proactive advocacy on your behalf, visit www.EAA.org/userfees.
Questions? e-mail govt@EAA.org
Don't delay ... Act TODAY!
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