Jay,
I think you make a good point. My bigest peeve is you never see a flight
school put an ad in the local newspaper, or in any type of media that is not
just see by the people that are already pilots! I have never seen it anway.
Every other type of biz advertises to gain customers. GA does not.
The cost to run an ad in a local paper is very reasonable, and may bring
in 10 new students instead of 2 or 3 . I think this can be especially useful
to the sport pilot rule. The public does not even know about it! Heck I know
mechs that have not heard about it yet! For TV, put Paris Hilton in her
bikini crawling in a Cherokee and see how many young male pilots GA gets!
If people never "know about it", "see it" , unless there is an accident,
what can aviation expect? They have to advertise to draw biz , that is why
other companies advertise!
The more pilots made, the more need for new GA aircraft. Fabbing new GA
aircraft makes more aviation jobs, etc etc.

Patrick
student SPL
aircraft structural mech

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:2AyKe.238299$x96.106126@attbi_s72...
NONE of these reasons are valid, but we in the GA
world have done a terrible job of spreading the word to the non-flying
public.

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