AOPA has every reason to inflate the numbers. I wonder what the FAA says.


"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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AOPA says 618K pilots and 88K instructors.

http://aopa2.org/special/newsroom/stats/pilots.html


"John Larson" wrote in message
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I bet there aren't even that many ,,,


"john smith" wrote in message
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Matt Barrow wrote:
I did say that your post was rather silly, posting it to a Newsgroup
that
is
frequented by maybe 100-200 pilots out of the 750,000 active. It
sounded
like whining to me.

Where did you get the 750k number?
There haven't been that many active pilots.
The number I heard last year was around 600k.