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Does anyone still subscribe to "Flight Training"? I seem to remember
them publishing the "student starts" each month -- but I have no idea where they got that info. -- Jay Honeck AOPA has pilot stats from 1929 thru 2005 but it is not broken down by month. It was interesting to note that there has been an average of 80,000 student pilots in the US in the past decade but it was double that amount in the early 1980's. The total US pilot stat has not changed much since 1967 averaging 600,000. We have the same amount of Private pilots today as we had in 1966 (220,000). David - KGYH |
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FLAV8R wrote:
Does anyone still subscribe to "Flight Training"? I seem to remember them publishing the "student starts" each month -- but I have no idea where they got that info. -- Jay Honeck AOPA has pilot stats from 1929 thru 2005 but it is not broken down by month. It was interesting to note that there has been an average of 80,000 student pilots in the US in the past decade but it was double that amount in the early 1980's. The total US pilot stat has not changed much since 1967 averaging 600,000. We have the same amount of Private pilots today as we had in 1966 (220,000). Which means that as a percentage of the population, we only have about 2/3rds as many private pilots now as in 1966. Not a good trend. Matt |
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in news:1163767124.193662.166360
@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com: I recently re-subscribed to "Plane & Pilot", and in this month's edition they repeatedly refer to the "strong upswing in student starts" that has fueled increased sales of (for example) the Diamond DA-40. 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 might come from AOPA. AOPA's been pushing their "Project Pilot" program for about 6 months or so now. Certainly they are going to express the feelings that the project is working, even if it may not be... |
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"tony" wrote in message
ups.com... yes you are right Tony - Your post triggered M$ Outlook Express 6.0 to prompt: "To display language characters correctly you need to install the following language pack: Chinese Simplified" Huh??? Montbwack |
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"Montblack" wrote in message
... Tony - Your post triggered M$ Outlook Express 6.0 to prompt: "To display language characters correctly you need to install the following language pack: Chinese Simplified" Huh??? From his message header: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="gb2312" "gb2312" is a commonly used Chinese language character set. Personally, I think it's silly to use a foreign-language character set when posting in English to a newsgroup that is essentially an English language newsgroup (the only Chinese in Tony's post was the "wrote in message" part of the quote). But not all users even comprehend that they are doing so...often the language settings just default based on the user's global computer settings, and the user doesn't know enough to override the default. I'm guessing that's the case here. Hopefully, Tony doesn't actually believe there's a reason to use Chinese characters in his posts, especially since the content he's actually writing is in English, obviously targeted at people who read English. Pete |
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1) The airline pilot's career will likely never have the shine it once had.
Salaries are down (WAY down, in some cases) job security as well, and the "glamor" of intercontinental flying is tarnished. Yeah, I wonder what's going to happen when you project this trend out 20 years. With so few military pilots in the pipeline, and now fewer privately trained pilots interested in pursuing flying as a career, the stars seem aligned to create a huge pilot shortage in the year 2027 or so... This should drive salaries back up, of course. The glamor of international travel is all but gone. Mary and I have talked extensively about flying to Europe, but each time we consider the agony of flying across the Atlantic with the kids in a cattle car we decide to fly our own plane somewhere. Between the discomfort of commercial flying, and the famously less-than-welcoming attitude of many Europeans, it's just easier to spend our tourist dollar in the Western hemisphere. God knows there are plenty of places we haven't yet seen on our side of the pond that are reachable in Atlas. 2)Utility for the individual or small business flyer is diminished. In the 50's and early '60's it was easy to find personal aircraft with TAS comparable to what were then considered to be airliners (DC-3's). This combined with the proximity of local airports led to a prodigious utility gain for those who could afford it. So true. I know that people in the 1950s were aware of what the then-new interstate highway system was going to do to rail travel -- but I don't think anyone much considered what they would to to aviation. Back when it took 8 hours to drive to Chicago from here, flying your company's Twin Beech made a lot of sense. Now, it's a 4.5 hour drive, which most businessmen will do in a day, especially when it saves hundreds of dollars to do so. And, of course, everyone knows what happened to commuter air service. With the advent of freeways, (and, more importantly, the loss of airmail contracts) commuter air lines went the way of the dinosaur. Let's hope the VLJs can bring it back! -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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On 19 Nov 2006 06:02:18 -0800, "Jay Honeck" wrote
in .com: The glamor of international travel is all but gone. Mary and I have talked extensively about flying to Europe, but each time we consider the agony of flying across the Atlantic with the kids in a cattle car we decide to fly our own plane somewhere. Between the discomfort of commercial flying, and the famously less-than-welcoming attitude of many Europeans, it's just easier to spend our tourist dollar in the Western hemisphere. God knows there are plenty of places we haven't yet seen on our side of the pond that are reachable in Atlas. While I share much of your criticism of airline travel, I have found the lasting benefits of international travel significantly exceed the relatively short periods of discomfort. |
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These rewards have been substantially eroded
over the years though, particularly in recent (post-911) years. Well, yes, but the hassle of flying commercially has increased far more than the hassle of flying onesself (except in the DC area). My wife is far more inclined even on longer trips now to propose taking the little airplane rather than the aluminum tube. While safety concerns have increased, ways to deal with them have too. GPS and Nexrad are examples of this. I don't think people are "stressed to death about the responsibility they take on every time they climb out of bed". CYA is more built into people's MO nowadays, but not in a stressful way (except perhaps as the recipient). An activity has to be fun and rewarding for it to be pursued. It still is. Jose -- "Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can't see where it keeps its brain." (chapter 10 of book 3 - Harry Potter). for Email, make the obvious change in the address. |
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