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• Who Will Fly for America Tomorrow?

  So, you wanna be a professional pilot, huh? Despite the economy, there will be a good number of vacant cockpit seats in the next decade or so as the last of the baby boomer bulge reaches 65, the airline pilot retirement age. If you are a Wall Street bonus... Posted Oct 20 2009, 01:01 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, FAA, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, pilot shortage, Pilot Population, Airline Safety and Pilot Training Improvement Act of 2009, Sallie Mae, Student pilot loans

• Business & ATPs Becoming GA’s Leaders

  Ever since I can remember personal flying has always represented the lion’s share of the general aviation fleet and hours flown, measured by the FAA’s annual GA and Part 135 survey . The most current data is for 2007, well before the economy... Posted May 06 2009, 05:03 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: Airlines, Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, Pilot Population, Sport Pilot, Private Pilot, Business Flying, General Avaition Fleet, Pleasure Flying, Commercial Pilot, Airline Transport Pilot

• Do Pilots Still Fly for Fun?

  A good question, posed by Matt Thomas in his comment about New Book Holds Hope for Aviation’s Future . “Do they risk finding other things to do that are perhaps more fun?” he asked on the next line, referring to pilots in general and... Posted Dec 15 2008, 03:51 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, Airports, FAA, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, Pilot Population, Military, Kansas City Dawn Patrol, flying for fun, FAA pilot demographics, recreational flying, flight simulators, RC models

• Will Only the Boutique Airframers Survive?

  Not a day goes by, it seems, when the aviation e-news organizations don’t report that another general aviation airframe manufacturer has reduced its work force and cut or ceased production to get through the globally self-inflicted economic meltdown... Posted Nov 10 2008, 04:14 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: Airports, Business Aviation, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Cessna, Aviation Marketing, Pilot Population, American Champion Aircraft, Eclipse Aviation, Aircraft manufacturers, Cirrus, Piper, Mooney, Aviat Aircraft, Adam Aircraft, Hawker Beech, aviation news, Maule

• Fuel Prices & Aviation Safety: Are They Related?

  Talking to friends, flight schools, and FBOs it is clear that I’m not the only one who isn’t flying as much as I used to. With avgas going for roughly $6 a gallon or more, depending where you live, direct operating costs are climbing faster... Posted Jul 10 2008, 01:23 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, Airports, FAA, General, Blogging, Flight Training, aviation safety, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, Pilot Population, Fuel Costs, GAMA, Oil Embargo, Accident Rate, NAFI

• Cessna Pilot Centers May be GA’s Last Hope for Reversing Pilot Population Decline

  Reversing the decline of the pilot population “is the most important thing we are addressing,” says Cessna Pilot Center Manager Julie Boatman. “We have several things in development that I’m not quite ready to talk about yet,”... Posted May 22 2008, 01:09 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, Airports, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, Pilot Population, Sport Pilot, Learn to Fly, Cessna Pilot Center, General Aviation

• General Aviation Won’t Find Future Pilots in Rear View Mirror

  Pilots are a population in decline. We are getting old and resting our wings, and it saddens me no end to watch the industry trawl yesterday’s fishing grounds for tomorrow’s pilots, most of whom have moved on to places unknown. It’s... Posted May 15 2008, 01:36 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, sport aviation, Pilot Population, Flight School, Learn to Fly, Pilot Recruiting, Student Starts, CFIs, Be A Pilot

• Flying as Sport: What Would Wilbur Write Now?

  In the February 1908 Scientific American , Wilbur Wright wrote in Flying as Sport that up to that time “men have taken up flying partly from scientific interest, partly from sport, and partly from business reasons….” But recreational... Posted Feb 20 2008, 01:44 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, General, Blogging, Flight Training, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, sport aviation, Recreational Aviation, Technologically Advanced Aircraft, TAA, Aviation Future, Wilbur Wright, Sport Flying, Airport Congestion, LSA, Pilot Population