149 airport towers to be closed by the FAA to meet their $637 million in forced spending cuts. - Polidicks

[quote]Frederick, Maryland (CNN) -- The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday told 149 regional airports across the country it would begin closing their air traffic control towers in April, but said it would spare another 40 towers that had been on the chopping block. The agency said the cuts are necessary to help meet $637 million in forced spending cuts. The tower closures will begin April 7 and will be phased in over four weeks, FAA Chief Operating Officer David Grizzle said in a memo obtained by CNN. Some towers were spared after the FAA considered appeals from towers, and consulted with the departments of defense and homeland security. Among those to be closed are towers at regional airports in Frederick, Maryland, and near St. Petersburg, Florida, that were built with federal stimulus money and have been open less than a year.[/quote] [url]http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/22/travel/faa-control-tower-closures/index.html?hpt=hp_bn3[/url]

Nice going Congress.

I don't get it. It took your Congress a year to approve a budget cut program and finally you cut absolutely everything that should be left alone.

Why not kill off the TSA instead?

[QUOTE=Stopper;40017466]I don't get it. It took your Congress a year to approve a budget cut program and finally you cut absolutely everything that should be left alone.[/QUOTE] They didn't approve a budget cut program. That's why these cuts are happening. This was intentionally designed to be a 'bad deal' so that Congress would learn to compromise and come up with their own budget cuts. It didn't work.

[QUOTE=Stopper;40017466]I don't get it. It took your Congress a year to approve a budget cut program and finally you cut absolutely everything that should be left alone.[/QUOTE] Obama put in a terrible budget cut plan that cut billions across the board, and he KNEW it was shit, but he made it so that if Congress didn't stop being a bunch of whiny assholes and approve a good budget, the shit one would go out Congress couldn't stop being a bunch of whiny babies, so guess which one's going out

this and more of this crap will make me and most likely other people not to bother with states ( or not a much ) already I cloud fly from Vancouver to Europe at the same price as New York ( I know this is off topic but this might make price's go up)

actually i am glad for certain cases, like a local public airstrip that was going to use even more taxes for a new tower, when their last tower was only 5 years old (not even damaged or old). but other cases are very eugh.

you want budget cuts what do you expect, I always say this but people here expect everything to be OK when more than a few million needs to be cut from budgets.

[QUOTE=Antdawg;40018056]you want budget cuts what do you expect, I always say this but people here expect everything to be OK when more than a few million needs to be cut from budgets.[/QUOTE] What other choice is there?

I got an email last month that the tower for the local airport I fly out of is planned to close because of these cuts. We get an immense amount of training traffic and have about 4 flight schools on the field, plus the controllers are pretty nice guys. Hoping we're one of the 40 spared :<

[QUOTE=laserguided;40018154]What other choice is there?[/QUOTE] there's nothing necessitating cuts right now, so a bunch.

The airport near my house is closing most of its towers.

[QUOTE=Lazor;40018187]there's nothing necessitating cuts right now, so a bunch.[/QUOTE] $16.7 trillion dollars in debt is enough of a reason to cut.

[QUOTE=laserguided;40018491]$16.7 trillion dollars in debt is enough of a reason to cut.[/QUOTE] The deficit is a better reason to cut the federal budget rather than the debt. Who cares if the US has nearly $17 trillion in debt, as long as it is capable of paying that back which I don't believe it is right now with its $1 trillion budget deficit.

As a pilot this pisses me off. Towers while not mandatory, to flying, are very important in the world of Aviation. And while I hope the towers they are closing are unused and from quiet airports- I can only cringe that at least a few mid-traffic airports might see theirs vanish. Which will no doubt cause something of a rise in Aviation related accidents. We'll have to see. [quote]Who cares if the US has nearly $17 trillion in debt, as long as it is capable of paying that back which I don't believe it is right now with its $1 trillion budget deficit.[/quote] Hahahaha. Yeah. Sure we can pay it back. That's why the Cabinet tried to deposit a platinum coin in the Fed Reserve to cover this financial terms' debts.

[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;40017479]Why not kill off the TSA instead?[/QUOTE] Cuz we need protection from something that happened 12 years ago! I mean it isn't like we could just have one armed dude on each plane and go back to the old ways... I mean you recall all the things the TSA has prevented like uhhh I am sure there is a list somewhere

[QUOTE=laserguided;40018491]$16.7 trillion dollars in debt is enough of a reason to cut.[/QUOTE] The debt will not be payed and it should not be payed. That's not how the economy works. As long as we have a budget surplus it's fine because we are paying the debtors. We need to get rid of the deficit.