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Old 30th Nov 2019, 07:02
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vne165
 
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Sunfish, I get the parody, think you're on the money.

In my view the world is morphing (in plain sight) towards something rather unpleasant, whilst all the UI's (useful idiots) gaze adoringly at their iThingies and enjoy Farcetubing each other. Outside of the GA sector itself, ask yourself who is left that gives a toss about light aircraft and flying? The Gen Z cohort have been fooled into expecting pilotless air taxis soon, why would they care about GA? Generally, millennials are not interested, they just want max bandwidth and a slave on a bicycle to deliver pre-prepared meals. The Gen X and boomers that still engage with GA are reaching retirement age, and/or being medically shut down. Support internally and externally for a GA sector is diminishing.

Coupled with the above, the Greta's of the world will look to find fossil fuelled targets that are readily attacked and then shamed into oblivion. Campaigns like this are perfect for window dressing in Class A virtue signalling and will be broadcast widely, the politicians will love it as it's action that is visible, laudable and actually impacts very few. Flying for fun is already a rich persons hobby.

GA fits the bill for this type of green-Marxist agenda perfectly. People who fly for anything other than a utilitarian purpose, e.g. for fun, challenge or pleasure will be shunned. Eventually motor sport will go this way too, but a bigger support base amongst the UI's will see it last a bit longer. Already they are working hard to head this off with electrickery and carbon foot print offsets. The writing is on the wall unless somebody comes up with a cunning plan.
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