Quitting Flying
I read the following article excerpt with interest this weekend. It is from a Sky Watch report and I have deliberately not quoted the authors name. Why is it that so many stop flying when there are so many different ways of staying airborne?
"Apart from folk who go on to Career Flying:
70% of all people who qualify as Private Pilots are no longer flying after TWO YEARS.
The rest - apart from a very few - are all out of flying within SIX YEARS.
That leaves just 5% which **** classifies as "incurables". Folk who one way or another will be flying until they turn their toes up. They make up the constant core of active private flying in the UK.
Expanding on the subject, **** said about 20% of the people who take a trial lesson decide to have flying lessons. Of those, around 65% actually complete the course and become PPL's.
Most of the people who don't buy their own aircraft or a share gradually reduce their flying and drop out completely inside a couple of years. The remaining very few who stay as Club flyers will mostly be gone inside five years.
Inside 6 years most aircraft owners will have sold their aeroplanes/shares and gone. So, after a six year period, 95% of all people who came into private flying during the same year will be gone".