We could for ever argue about the % of the various factors but I would add some bigger ones to why people (students and post-PPLs) drop out:
- they just wanted to tick the 'learnt to fly' box
- the lack of 'scenery' (women) makes it a lousy activity choice for a single bloke, given how time consuming a hobby it is (single men are almost constantly 'looking' and have to choose any time- and money-consuming activites carefully)
- a lot of very young jobless pilots are doing it from a gift of money and when that runs out...
Oddly, I think that
educational quality, customer focus, community, and information sharing hit the nail on the head. To put it more crudely (my usual way), a lot of instructors are bad, a lot of schools are disorganised, the social scene is crap, and there is little or no mentoring (respectively
).