I don't know about over East, but in Jandakot it hasn't made much difference in terms of student numbers. Those who have started training after it was implemented knew no different, the ones in the middle of their training didn't like it but on the whole accepted it as inevitable.
A 152/PA38 costs $5.11 for ASA and $8.00 for Jandakot Airport Holdings, a PA28/C172 is $7.11 for ASA and $8.00 for JAH per landing, and they are all 2.40 for a touch and go.
The biggest difference is in the time management have to spend each month auditing reams and reams of landing fee bills! Overall costs have gone up for other reasons; privatisation, workers comp premiums and now the fuel price hike, to name a few.
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