hold file.
While Linfox can probably claim to be a big company, they are not the US department of defence, who are the owners of the GPS network.
Charging for GPS approaches where the aircraft doesn't actually touch the runway is typical of big business thinking, but I would have thought that the charges are not actually legal and binding because I would have thought that the airspace above the airfield is NOT the property of the airport owner, merely the runway and tarmac.
The precedent that it would set if unsucessfully challenged would be enormous - I could charge $50 for each departure ex Brissie that flies over my house - they are flying a published SID (no different than a published GPS approach I would have thought) - I can see the registrations and can log them.
Now there is an idea!!
Anyone have AVcharges phone number?????