Larry Dighera writes:

My viewpoint is based on the future path NASA and the FAA have
outlined he

NASA and the FAA don't make policy, they follow it. Without a public
interest in what they propose, it won't happen.

A policy that enhances GA alone is unlikely to get any public or
political support. A policy that usurps certain aspects of GA for
commercial air transport is likely to crowd GA out of the picture
entirely, in time.

Lack of insight and greed are the cause of the closures of so many
municipal airports.

Is there no greed in wanting to dedicate large amounts of land to use
by a very tiny minority of the population?

That is destined to change. Of curse it requires creative insight to
appreciate a new transportation system, but it will happen despite
those with their heads in the sand.

If it changes, the change will eliminate GA and replace it with purely
commercial air transport, essentially another tier of the existing
commercial system.

Read the SATS information available at the links above.

I don't see how that information indicates that GA is any way of the
future for anyone.

Surely you don't believe that the air transportation system is
destined to remain static, do you?

I think general aviation is in serious danger, so no, I don't believe
that it will remain static. Just as there are no significant private
railroads or trains, there may eventually be no private planes.

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