Does AOPA have it wrong? When the spectre of user pays arose they adopted a strategy to minimise the cost to their user community. Did anyone think about the responsibility of the Federal Government to continue to provide a level of service commensurate with safety as a Community Service Obligation to the GA community and as a service to the remoter parts of OZ?
The aviation community has been poorly served by the divisiveness of the Government approach to divest itself of all responsibility and to reap the financial bonus of being able to sell off a commercially viable air traffic service provider.