If there were 25 million active GA pilots...

"Dan Luke" c172rgATbellsouthDOTnet wrote:

If there were 25 million active GA pilots in the USA instead of 400,000 or so:

There would be GA airports *everywhere*.

There would also be GA *airplanes* everywhere and the number of midair
collisions would increase dramatically. It's a big sky, but not
*that* big.

You could rent a T hangar for less than the cost of a 1 br apartment.

Hangar rates would be about the same--can you say "law of supply and
demand"?

The accident rate would be about the same but the fatal accident rate would
be lower due to modern, more crashworthy designs.

Accident rates would skyrocket, both fatal and non-fatal.

You'd give the engine in your airplane about as much thought as you do the
one in your car. The idea of sending oil samples off for analysis at each
change would seem absurd.

Dream on.

Your new "family" airplane would be air conditioned. It would have a headup
synthetic vision/HITS display, emergency autoland capability, real time data
link weather and a CD/DVD player.

Air conditioning is for wimps--gain some altitude for goodness sakes.
Heads-up display? Keep your silly heads-up display. Data link? Real
time weather data link is here now and will be quite affordable in the
near future. CD player? If you're gonna be plugged into a CD player,
you'll not be piloting my airplane.

You'd have a second, "fun" airplane.

Yeah, sure. Your conclusions are as fanciful as your premise.

"Jeff" wrote:
There would also be GA *airplanes* everywhere and the number of midair
collisions would increase dramatically.

Of course, assuming that the much larger market had not driven superior
technology, which is one of the points of my OP.

Hangar rates would be about the same--can you say "law of supply and
demand"?

Can you say "more competition?"

Accident rates would skyrocket, both fatal and non-fatal.

Why?

You'd give the engine in your airplane about as much thought as you do
the
one in your car. The idea of sending oil samples off for analysis at each
change would seem absurd.

Dream on.

Tell me why that would be a dream.

Your new "family" airplane would be air conditioned. It would have a
headup
synthetic vision/HITS display, emergency autoland capability, real time
data
link weather and a CD/DVD player.

Air conditioning is for wimps--

Spent much time down South, have you?

Heads-up display? Keep your silly heads-up display. Data link? Real
time weather data link is here now and will be quite affordable in the
near future. CD player? If you're gonna be plugged into a CD player,
you'll not be piloting my airplane.

Ar-r-rrrr maties! Here's a salty, bold pilot!

Yeah, sure. Your conclusions are as fanciful as your premise.

Uh, see the last line.
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

"Dan Luke" c172rgATbellsouthDOTnet wrote:

Hangar rates would be about the same--can you say "law of supply and
demand"?

Can you say "more competition?"

High hangar costs are not due to a lack of "competition". Get real.

Accident rates would skyrocket, both fatal and non-fatal.

Why?

Because instead of 400,000 pilots, of which 10% are idiots, you'd have
25 million pilots of which 40% were idiots. Accident rates would
skyrocket.

Spent much time down South, have you?

I live in the south. I don't have an air conditioner in my airplane
and wouldn't want one.

Your conclusions are indeed as fanciful as your premise.

"Jeff" wrote:
Because instead of 400,000 pilots, of which 10% are idiots, you'd
have
25 million pilots of which 40% were idiots. Accident rates would
skyrocket.
Your conclusions are indeed as fanciful as your premise.

Your statistics are as fanciful as my premise.

You can rent a T hangar for less then aa 1 br apartment. At least around
here. What prices are you paying and where?

You could rent a T hangar for less than the cost of a 1 br apartment.

"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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"Dan Luke" c172rgATbellsouthDOTnet wrote in message
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| Vacuum pumps would be deep in landfills.
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You know, a lot of pilots *like* vacuum pumps. They don't want everything
dependent on a single electrical system.

You know, a lot of pilots do not know that dual bus electrical systems with
backup alternators are better than vacuum pumps which are virtually
guaranteed to fail before TBO.

Jim Vadek wrote:

You know, a lot of pilots do not know that dual bus electrical systems with
backup alternators are better than vacuum pumps which are virtually
guaranteed to fail before TBO.

Maybe your stupid little dry pump will fail.

In article , "Jim
Vadek" wrote:

vacuum pumps which are virtually
guaranteed to fail before TBO.

not much of a TBO if the pumps fail before reaching it.

--
Bob Noel

"Dan Luke" c172rgATbellsouthDOTnet wrote in message
...
...in the USA instead of 400,000 or so:

If their competence level was anything like the drivers on the roads,
the aluminum recycling business would be one HOT career choice...

HB

"Henry Bibb" wrote:
...in the USA instead of 400,000 or so:

If their competence level was anything like the drivers on the
roads,
the aluminum recycling business would be one HOT career choice...

If it were the same as the current population of pilots, there would
be plenty of scrap created.
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM