Everyone is all up in arms over privatization. Yes it has done damage to GA in Europe and Australia, but you have to consider that in those countries the vast majority of fields had control towers. I fly int the southeast and a quick look at the Atlanta sectional shows only a handful of controlled fields.The way the system is now VFR pilots flying in and out of uncontrolled fields are pay the same taxes for ATC to support a system that they don't use. Maybe I'm completely off base but I don't think that privatization will be the death knell that it is being made out to be. Yes it will probably get more expensive the fly IFR, but then You'll be picking up the part of the tab that guys like me have been paying all along. But hey I'm weird in that I fly a 1948 Vagabond with no electrical system, and avoid controlled airspace like the plague. I even hand propped by myself several times yesterday, how nuts is that. And don't even get me started about flying gliders around ( no engine, no transponder, no strobes ) I must be insane.