"W P Dixon" wrote in message
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Jay,
I think you make a good point. My bigest peeve is you never see a flight
school put an ad in the local newspaper, or in any type of media that is
not just see by the people that are already pilots! I have never seen it
anway. Every other type of biz advertises to gain customers. GA does not.
NONE of these reasons are valid, but we in the GA
world have done a terrible job of spreading the word to the non-flying
public.

Would an ad in the local newspaper draw much attention for a flight school?
When I got interested in flying (finally), I looked through the 'community
education' flyer that came in the mail and found a class for ground school
available. If there are local community colleges around the area that offer
any type of GA training, that'd be a good start and they do 'some'
advertising.

One thing that gets word out about GA in this area (MN/IA) are the flight
breakfasts somewhere just about every Sunday during the summer. The local
communities sponsor and advertise these and have good turnouts by the
locals. I'm planning on Humboldt's fly-in this Sunday and Mankato the next
Sunday, both which have around 100 planes fly in and another 500-1000 locals
show up. Plane rides are offered at these to get local people interested in
GA.

-Greg B.