So is it that people have stopped learning to fly 'for fun' but now only do it 'for transport'? Or to get a job in aviation transport?
If that's the case, I wonder why?
Flying costs higher due more expensive fuel?
Less disposable income among the young due struggling to get on housing ladder?
Flying less fun due increased security, general nannying, less 'freedom' (can't go many places non radio today, and many new pilots seem to regard the radio as a primary - THE primary in some cases - flight control).
Or are we just less 'fun oriented' as a society?