I think Skyhigh has a good point here. Look at the boating industry. Public marinas are not being built any more. Private marinas are being purchased and converted to Condominiums / dockominiums where only the "Yacht" crowd can afford to keep their "boat." The small boat owner is being squeezed out of the sport by regulation, taxation, high insurance costs, high fuel costs and "user fees." Sport aviation (where many of us learned to love flying) is being "displaced" by the same constraints.

Perhaps there is some good in all this. As SAABaroowski says, "There's nothing like flying a J-3 Cub with no doors off a grass strip."