A good look around Bankstown or Moorabbin airports will tell you there is something seriously wrong with the flying training industry in Australia. When I learnt to fly at Bankstown in the mid 80’s it was the busiest airport in the southern hemisphere. You had to book weeks in advance to get a flying lesson. Today it’ a ghost town. Moorabbin’s the same. Almost all the training at Parafield and Jandakot is cadet training for foreign airlines, mostly from Asia. This leaves Archerfield. It too is in a steady decline.