Sign The Petition

You are here

Home ›

Aviation's Impact

Aviation Impacts Business & Family Alike

My dad was a real estate appraiser. He could not have managed the distance (thousands of miles weekly) without his own plane. Now, though mom and dad are long gone, my siblings and I stay in contact through the commercial airline business. In Wichita, we're proud that we contribute to your own transportation, Mr. President. Air Force One, Two and more are built right here in our great city for your safety and convenience. Aviation matters--for all of us.

Obama Supporter Agrees He Must Stop the Attacks

Mr. President,
Unlike most of the other signers of this petition, I don’t love airplanes. I don’t even like to fly. Also unlike many others here, I voted for you in 2008, and I intend to vote for you again this year.

So, as your supporter, I ask you to stop “dissing” business aviation. Don’t make it a symbolic target of all that is wrong with capitalism. Yes, there are those who misuse business aviation, just as there is greed and malfeasance in some corporations, in the non-profit sector (in which I have worked for nearly 40 years), and yes, even in our government.

G.A. Allows Vital Face-to-Face Meetings

Corporate aviation supports American business by providing timely transportation for decision-making executives; we ensure they're able to do business efficiently. As sophisticated as our communications tools are these days - many situations require "boots on the ground" and face-to-face interaction that cannot be duplicated by phone or video conferencing. Our aviation department supports a public utility with customers in a hurricane zone and we must be mobile in response to weather events that affect millions of households.

Fees Leaving Hangars Empty

It has never been easy for me to own an airplane. l built one a little at a time over a ten year period. Now, gas is so expensive, it's getting hard to justify owing it. Half of the hangers at the airport are vacant. It sure isn't the same place it was ten years ago.

The President Should Champion G.A.

Aviation has been my life for 36 years. At the age of 16, I began flying, like many people, for the pure freedom and exhilaration of it. Since that time, I've been an air traffic controller in the USAF, worked in the space tracking system, and now support corporate aviation on a daily basis. The Obama administration and many in Congress want to use my industry as a way to profit. This is not the government's role. Instead of criticizing our industry and changing the way we pay for our aviation system, the administration should be championing what we do.

G.A. Effects So Many Facets of Life, So Many Lives

I chose to make aviation my career and became a flight instructor at 18. For the past 34 years I have stayed exclusively in "general aviation". I managed a corporate flight department for the same company for 26 years and have personally flown many extremely high profile and well known politicians to and from small towns in America. Each and every time it was to help them reach out to Americans...to be their voice in Washington. According to its founders, the company that I served for two and a half decades could not have succeeded without an airplane.

Aviators Predict User Fees Will Further Hurt G.A.

I have been involved in Aviation since 1985 when I enlisted in the USAF as a Jet Engine Mechanic. I proudly served my country for four years and during that time, attended a local Community College, where I earned my Airframe and Powerplant License. After serving for four years, I went on to work for United Airlines for five years. I started working on my Pilot ratings and I have now earned my Airline Transport Pilot certificate and fly for a Part 135 Charter Company. I now have approximatly 6000 hours of flight time, and I still stay active with the maintenance side of the industry.

User Fees Place Unfair Burden on G.A. Industry

Mr. President, please remove the ATC user fee provision from the FY2013 budget proposal. Pay at the pump works. The user fee provision will do nothing more than rob our economy of jobs, place an unfair burden on GA operators, encourage unsafe operations, and worst of all, create a brand new government bureaucracy that is bound to grow, over-exercise its authority, and cripple a great American industry.

Some Dream of Flying All Their Lives

I have loved aviation since before I can remember. I was born during WWII and my dad was employed by North American at the time. My parents told me that on nights when I was fussy and wouldn't sleep, they would drive by the run-up area at Tinker Field and let me hear the Mustangs running up their engines and I would fall right to sleep. I built model airplanes all my life and used to ride my bike to the local airport on Sundays to watch the airplanes. When I was seventeen, I went to work for a flying club washing and polishing airplanes for flying time.

One Man's Letter to the President

Mr. President, you are instilling a collective fear in the hearts of so many of us American aviators. As you've proposed them, user fees may not immediately affect me and the training that I do, or the recreational excursions that I take in my airplane, but there is a fear that once enacted those user fees will creep their way into the heart of what is a breathtaking example of the freedom we posses as Americans.

Pages

Sign This Petition

Donate to the campaign!

Find us on:    Watch us on YouTubeFollow us on TwitterLike us on Facebook

Sign In Here

Pompeo Aviation Website

I would be honored to share your personal stories with the President. Please take time to show Mr. Obama how important aviation is to real people like you and me.

Share Aviation Story