This is the first I've heard of this increase in pilot training, and I
hope it's the start of a trend. Anyone got a source for student stats?

It seems like every time I've walk into an FBO in the last twenty years,
they've been talking about how this was the PERFECT time to start toward a
career in flying. Airlines would be -begging- for pilots right around the
time I'd be getting that kind of flying time.

Even a stopped clock is correct twice a day, I guess, but maybe the flight
schools found some hotshot new advertising agency or something.

Well, I'd agree, but P & P says that Diamond has sold 350+ DA40
trainers -- a great success story -- and is partially explaining this
success by referring to the "increase in student pilot training".

Clearly Diamond and P&P think that there are more students now, but
it's the first I've heard of it.
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
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