I fear that if we continue to weed people out, we will find
ourselves more and more alone at the airports as the early Baby Boomers --
who make up a huge percentage of active pilots -- start to die out.

Is that an original notion you formed, or is it an agenda supported by
others? Is it in any way related to your aviation-based enterprise?

Yes and no -- but probably not for the reasons you suspect.

My fear of aviation dying is related to the hotel because I love the
aviation aspect of our inn, and I would hate to lose it.

However, if I lost every, single pilot who ever visits the hotel, our
business would drop -- at most -- 10%. Since we are currently up 52% over
last year -- which, itself was up 20% over 2003 -- losing all of our fly-in
guests would not harm us, businesswise.

Nevertheless, I would instantly sell the hotel if we were to ever lose our
fly-in guests. I have zero interest in running a regular hotel.

And I have even less interest in flying as an elite "sport", something to be
done only by the rich and daring. That's NOT what flying was meant to be in
America, and -- after watching what has happened to aviation in Europe
(thanks to outrageous taxation) -- I will do everything in my (very limited)
power to prevent that from happening here.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"