I don't buy the argument that most of the old-time pilots have stopped flying.
As I said earlier, most of those I know, here in the UK, are still flying.
There has always been a large churn rate in GA. The barriers to entry are quite low at the PPL level, and a lot of people go into it just for a laugh, and I would expect those to be severely affected by the economy (both ways). But I am talking about long term pilots.
Sure some people have stopped flying. But what I see across the forums is something like a 90% disappearance.
Last edited by IO540; 8th Sep 2010 at 18:55.