Silent Skies
Is General Aviation dying? What with airfields being closed, (Cambridge next?), rising fuel prices, the environmentalists damning aviation as the primary culprit to global warming and the cheap alternative in the form of flight simulator programs for pc`s, will our skies fall silent?
Cessna and Piper report sales of new aircraft in Europe as `flat`. Airfields close down to become car parks or building land and flying hours are dwindling away, despite the efforts of new publications such as `Loop` trying to encourage interest. This August saw our flying school hours 30% down on the worst year on record.
How are other schools fairing around the country? What do you see as the primary causes of this demise? Or, if you do not see an effect, what are you doing right?