NY Times looks at pilot decline
04-27-2007, 05:36 AM
#21
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AOPA has been desprate for years over this whole issue, and has found limited success.
It is a society thing. Many people here who can afford to fly have work and family schedules that simply do not allow for the time learning to fly would require. Now, even if they did, there is no way for them to learn here anyway.
It is a society thing. Many people here who can afford to fly have work and family schedules that simply do not allow for the time learning to fly would require. Now, even if they did, there is no way for them to learn here anyway.
This is what I have been saying all these years on this forum. We can have most anything we want in life but not everything. We can pursue our aviation dreams but the cost is getting higher for the professional and hobbyist. As for myself I have chosen to be home, to build a family, earn a real living and to be in charge of my life again. All it cost me was my aviation dream. I may lament the passing of my dream but am thankful everyday that I made that choice.
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04-27-2007, 05:38 AM
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Its ashame too, I get no greater joy than taking up a single engine airplane to do some soft field landing early in the AM. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about spending my whole paycheck just go go out for an hour or so.......................I hope for all of us, even Skyhigh that the industry tunrs around so we can all make decent money and do what we REALLY love to do................(me anyway) go fly around in the oldest simplets airplane I can find, no Radios, No doors, no Jet-A, no Pushback clearance, no Dispatch, just flying 
04-27-2007, 05:41 AM
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The hobby pilot does so today because (First) they can afford it and (second) like it. If it becomes an "obsession" they pursue it as a hobby because they can afford it. To fly as a professional pilot would drop them back to an income level where they could not pursue flying as a hobby. How's that for being convoluted ?
04-27-2007, 05:42 AM
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Its ashame too, I get no greater joy than taking up a single engine airplane to do some soft field landing early in the AM. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about spending my whole paycheck just go go out for an hour or so.......................I hope for all of us, even Skyhigh that the industry tunrs around so we can all make decent money and do what we REALLY love to do................(me anyway) go fly around in the oldest simplets airplane I can find, no Radios, No doors, no Jet-A, no Pushback clearance, no Dispatch, just flying
SkyHigh
04-27-2007, 05:45 AM
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A pilot looks at 40
To parody Jimmy Buffett:
Yes I am a Pilot....25 years too late....
The engines don't thunder the payscale is plundered
Im an under 40 victim of fate....arriving too late....arriving too late
Yes I am a Pilot....25 years too late....
The engines don't thunder the payscale is plundered
Im an under 40 victim of fate....arriving too late....arriving too late
04-27-2007, 05:46 AM
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I also don't believe that anyone can expect to keep a good job for long as a pilot anymore. I have a growing family and needed to seek out a better and more stable form of income.
SkyHigh
04-27-2007, 05:52 AM
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did you expect this degree to pay ANYTHING? "raiders of the lost ark" was a great movie, but going after a career in that field is a pipe dream........a career at mcdonalds would pay more than that.
04-27-2007, 06:02 AM
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I have a good friend who is retired from IBM and flies every summer in Alaska. He is collecting a good retirement from IBM and earns a good wage flying during the tourist season in Alaska. He loves it! That plan worked out very well for him.
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