Seth Masia wrote:
I can't help thinking that if we made learning to fly a lot easier, and made
airplanes a lot simpler to fly safely, and made them as cheap as cars --
then they'd be as common as cars and we'd be bitching about all the newbies
cluttering up our airspace. We'd have midair collisions every day, across
the country. A lot of us would quit in frustration.

I believe you're right. Since the FAA is tasked with improving safety, that's
probably the reason for a lot of what they do. "If too many of 'em get into the
air, it ain't hard enough -- write some more regs."

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.