Save-GA is about just that - Saving the valuable and irreplaceable resource that is General Aviation.  Our system of airspace, airports and air traffic control is the best in the world.  Let's fight to keep it that way.

I've been involved with General Aviation for all of my adult life.  I own and use a plane to travel as a consultant, and I am not rich.  The plane I fly is a 35 year old Cessna 172.  It cost me less than many of the new cars on the market, gets better gas mileage than most cars on the road, is quieter than a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, and on a trip from San Diego, CA to Las Vegas, NV will burn less fuel and produce less CO₂ than many cars, while traveling twice as fast, and, because I can fly a straight path, not nearly as far; meaning that rather than spending six hours in traffic I can arrive in three.  While serving in the Air Force, I traveled to other countries, and I've seen firsthand what User Fees and privatization have done to Europe.  I grew up in Tulsa, and met many of the people who came from other countries to learn to fly here because it was too expensive in their home countries.  I?ve met many friends and had wonderful experiences that I never would have had if I had been involved in General Aviation.  I met my wife of 15 years on our College Flight Team.  All of this has led me to cherish the freedom to fly, and I want to ensure that others have the same opportunities to fly and enjoy aviation for pleasure, business, charity and for the benefit of all Americans.  General  Aviation employs 1.3 million American citizens and pumps $150 billion dollars into our nation?s economy every year.  It saves the lives of people living in rural communities, cut off from airline service and dependant on their local airport to reach medical treatment in distant cities.  It makes overnight package delivery possible.  It does so much, and does it so well that it has become a ubiquitous part of our culture, facilitating many of the daily amenities that all Americans take for granted.  Now General Aviation is threatened and being used as a pawn in a media created ?Class War?, where people who own planes or fly are being painted as elitists and fat-cats and rich.  General Aviation airports, the on-ramps and off-ramps to the finest aviation system in the world are being threatened with new fees and restrictions.  Onerous new security measures are being proposed that would place the same limitations on private aircraft as on airlines.  These are aircraft flown by their owners for their own personal transportation, not giant aluminum tubes filled with 100+ strangers.  If the government were to tell people what they could carry in their own cars, or who could and could not travel in their cars with them, the public outcry would be immense.  Yet this is exactly what the TSA is trying to go to General Aviation.  All of this has made me realize that I could not sleep, or rest or hope that someone else would do something.  I realized that I had to act, to do something to help General Aviation and preserve one of the greatest treasures of our American heritage.  As a military officer I took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution, and now I swear a similar oath to the preservation and protection of General Aviation for the benefit of all Americans!