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Around these parts (currently doing a job in Arizona) the market for learning to fly seems to be holding up quite well.
I was out boozing with a CFI at one of the busier class D airfields round here, and she was saying things are getting a lot slower. She was blaming it on all the insurance hikes in the past year, it's now substantially more expensive to rent a plane where she works than a year ago. She is now looking for a second job