Wed, Aug 05, 2009
Last Friday, AeroShell Square was ringed with some of the
best-known business aircraft flying, as EAA President Tom
Poberezny, GAMA President Pete Bunce, FAA Administrator Randy
Babbitt, and a parade of professionals brought the message of
business aviation to the worlds largest sport aviation show.
That message is jobs, and that business aviation has been
unfairly pilloried by Congress and the Obama Administration. The
issue was pushed into the spotlight when automakers flew into
Washington on corporate jets for Congressional hearings, and has
been taking hits ever since. GAMA assembled a lineup of corporate
leaders to bring a positive business aviations message to the
Oshkosh crowd, and the industry media.
FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt set the tone for the speakers
who followed him to the podium. "I can't understate the value of
General Aviation," he said. "The manufacturing is critical to the
economy. So many high-tech jobs are associated with aviation."
Babbitt reiterated some of the same points made at the previous
day's "Meet the Administrator" session. He talked again about how
NextGen navigation will make thousands of airports accessible
through precision approaches at airports around the country that
could not afford to install ILS equipment. "We are being aggressive
in writing the approaches," he said. NextGen technology will be
responsible for "savings of 1 billion gallons of fuel annually," he
said. "The technology is here. It doesn't need anything but
implementation."
Over this week, we'll hear from Tom Poberezny, Pete Bunce, Randy
Babbitt, Jack Roush, Marion Blakey and others... all in defense of
a much maligned industry that is and continues to be a critical
part of this nation's transportation infrastructure.
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