What GA needs

"Dave J" wrote in message
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On Sep 10, 6:52 pm, Larry Dighera wrote:

That sort of depends on how you define the future of GA. The FAA sees
GA as a source of air-taxi passenger movers, so that airlines can
utilize more airports. That is Cirrus' future market: air-taxi
operators.

I had not thought about that much, but you are right. It could be the
birth of a new industry. Still, I don't know why the editors at AOPA
Pilot and Flying, etc, get so excited over Columbias and Cirri. These
are nice aircraft, but are not in the reach of most flyers now, and
definitely not in the reach of the flyers necessary to revive GA, get
the volumes up, and get a "reverse death spiral" cooking.

Air taxi is going (IMO) in the dorection of VLJs. The Cirrus and Columbia's
are not aimed at the entry level market, but they, too, will be within reach
of many pilots once they get a few years depreciation on them.