Jay Honeck wrote:

Our guest found an instructor and aircraft at a smaller, nearby
airport, so the story doesn't end entirely sadly. But it's just SO
frustrating to see the skies over Iowa City slowly becoming empty
thanks to people in the industry who simply don't understand that
without an active, proactive interest in flight training EVERYTHING
stops in about ten years.

Becoming empty? I thought all this GA activity was causing ATC
to work overtime... and flight delays of commercial jets???

Oh my ... could the FAA be full of sh!# like other government
agencies?