I have a question about what local municipalities and cites can charge in excess of what the FAA requires to be and work as an instructor. A flight school at the airport is working with a local municipality to do just that. The maintenance facility on the field has several airplanes that they rent out and myself and several others instruct students who have rented those planes. The municipality is trying to impose a $500.00 a yr fee at the insistence of the existing flight school on us for the privilege of instructing at that airport. Something seems fishy about the concept to me. The owner of the flight school is not a pilot. Has no experience running a flight school and seems only to want to make money by driving out in any way possible any other entity that might, in his estimation, be competing with his school. I've been instructing for over 20yrs and I've never heard of anything like this. The aforementioned flight school seems to want to be the only entity offering planes and instruction on the field. It is creating quite a storm on the field. My question is: have you ever heard of this kind of arrangement and is it legal or enforceable?
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