YCKT, I thought that there was this thing called AOPA that had a membership of most GA people that could afford $50,000 or so to get a strategy done by a competent firm.
I agree with you about privatised airports. The owners of those airports are concerned about return on investment, not aircraft, and the minute that the return is higher by building a shopping mall on the site rather than squeezing dollars out of GA folk, then those airports will close for good.
The trick is to form a vision of where GA is going, then put in place strategies to achieve the vision. I assume Bankstown is now prime real estate, as is Moorabbin, as is Essendon. GA needs to come up with a compelling reason why those airports need to stay where they are and convince the owners to accept a lower rate of return, or pay market rates compared to the proverbial shopping mall. Thats the way the market works, end of story.