“These handheld games that kids have today, the playstation or gameboy or whatever, it's unlike what I think of as a video game, and it's very portable. No wonder kids are wrapped in their own world and lose sight of things like airplanes. They've already got their entertainment fix.”
I have to say that this is a complete red herring as far as the UK number of pilots is concerned. “All” you have to do to revolutionise UK private flying is to solve the drop out rate. According to the mags etc 80% of the people who get a licence drop out in the first few years after qualifying. Work out how to reduce that to 70% and we would all notice the difference PDQ. The recession has eaten into the hard core who fly long term, which has made the situation worse.
Rod1