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AMROBA Newsletter - August 2022

Via AMROBA: https://amroba.org.au/wp-content/uploads...t-2022.pdf

GA Fragility

General Aviation as a whole is fragile and it needs to be supported. Flying is expensive, especially on one’s own money. In the competition with other priorities such as student loans, a first home, or a new family, flight training often falls to the bottom of the list. Buying your own aircraft, though often a more cost-effective way to train than renting, doesn’t even register on the scale for many. However, in a generation of Instagrammers and Youtubers, flying can, and does often, virtually sell itself.

Compound that with lack of available space in the local flight school, which in many cases weathered the hard times by seeking out lucrative foreign training contracts, and what should be the first step on a gradual upward career trajectory seems more impossible at every juncture.

It also means that pilots have a duty to future generations to introduce new people to airplanes and connect those potential pilots with the opportunities to realize their dreams. Whether volunteering at a youth aviation event, donating back to the scholarship program that helped them get started, or simply by taking a friend for an airplane ride. Otherwise, there will be no J-3 Cub, either for the students or the 747 captains.

The growth of aviation is dependent on the growth of pilot numbers.

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