It doesn't sound stupid, but the demographics kind of suck for this sort of
thing. People involved in GA are, on average, older than the population as
a whole. Older people are more likely to be married already. So given that
GA is already such a small part of the population, and that only a small
part of the GA community are available, and that only a small part of the
available GA people are likely to find this kind of website, it begins to
look questionable. You need a fair amount of traffic to support any kind of
community on the net... say at least 60 people who check in and post
something every day. And in a dating site, you are bound to have people who
drop out once they meet "the one", so you would constantly need fresh faces
coming in the door as old ones walk out.

I'm married myself, so I've never looked at any of the sites that are out
there. I've only even heared of two or three. But what I'm wondering is
whether the existing supply of dataing sites, and perhaps especially
"Friendster", could be used for the same puposes. I'm thinking that if you
just put the words "general aviation" and "flying" in your profile, that
would be enough to attract anyone of the opposite sex who was looking for
these kinds of things as well.


Thanks for your thoughts. However, keep in mind that it wouldn't be
just a dating site but also a flying buddy finding site, so hopefully
it wouldn't be as anemic as it would be otherwise. And hopefully word
of mouth will help too. I thought about the same thing myself, i.e.
that average age of GA pilots is somewhere in the 50s. But there ARE
youngins out there, and that's why I think this site would be a good
thing, precisely because there aren't many of us out there. I'm
thinking of reserving space for a pic of the person, a pic of the
airplane, description of the airplane, and description of the person.
:-)

- Slav Inger
- PP ASEL IA @ YIP