Well, don't know what the hotshots are going to do, but I suspect it has a
lot more to do with "pork" than suitability of a particular geographical
area. A geographical area has little influence on primary flight training,
actually. The so-called "dangers" to a civilian populace attributed to
flight training is virtually non-existent. Certainly, once in a while, a
student pilot will be involved in some sort of a mishap thet scares the
bejesus out of some civilians, but in actuality, very, very few are actually
injured or killed.





Understood. It sounds like Fort Irwin is the place. Of course, all
those new WO's and Eltees would hate it being so far from Barstow. Of
course, they could make thunder runs to Las Vegas on the weekends.

It is clear there is no easy answer. Therefore, as the government is
wont to do, primary rotor wing training will stay at Rucker, probably
until the end of time.

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Fuzz