The baby boomer concept...now you know that does make perfect sense.
One thing that has always kept a lot of potential good people out of the air is prohibitive costs. At my local airport, it's going to cost $106 plus tax to rent a Cessna 152 for one hour. This is a very old, very dilapidated, VERY high time VFR aircraft from the early 70's. An instructor costs $55/hour, which honestly I can't argue with. 100LL fuel is about $5.75/gallon.
The Cessna 162 was supposed to help in this department in a big way. Initially, it was going to cost less than $100,000 (!). But now, the advertised cost is something like $112,500 and the actual cost is over $130,000.
Now, I'm not sure we'd really want private flying to be dirt cheap, otherwise we would have everybody and their brother buzzing around the local airport like bust bees on sunny days...but certainly if it were 30% less expensive that would be a super help!
How much does what I described cost in the UK?
The other thing everybody is worried about over here is our over-controlling government talking about banning 100LL. Currently there are very few aircraft that run on 94 octane un-leaded.
Nonetheless, I have wanted to fly since I was 5!