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Old July 1st 10, 06:35 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.aviation.student
Gene Seibel
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Default Why don't more Young Eagles become pilots?

On Jun 30, 3:43*pm, Jim Logajan wrote:

That said, if those ~0.27% go on to become pilots, it would be comparable
to, but slightly better than, the fraction of the U.S. population that are
certificated pilots (~600,000/~300,000,000 =~ 0.2%)


Actually 35% better.
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