mmmmmmm,
Why are flying hours down? Which would translate to less people learning to fly?
How about
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Having to fill out 3 complicated forms, spelling mistake made: not sent back & not informed of mistake, sits in pile with owner not aware that it's not being processed. Meanwhile school advises student to slow training down until student licence and medical processed as solo can't occur until then. You continue to bang your students head against a brick wall for the first 2 months of their flying career, great first impression huh?
How about
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It costing at least $500 a year to maintain medicals, documents, ID's etc
BEFORE you fly one hour.
How about
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35-40 year old aircraft being the mainstay of flying school fleets.
How about
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Continuing and never ending expansion of regulation & strict liability for an activity that should be fun.
How about
:
Chicks don't dig pilots anymore (they know it's a scummy job with low pay & low prospects) therefore robbing a pilot of another source of return on their investment.
That's just a start
