Originally Posted by
gloopy
A lot needs to be done. We need a new and improved General Aviation Revitalization Act with strong tort protections for flight schools, manufacturers and parts providers and insurance companies. We need better recruitment efforts. We need significantly cheaper college degrees paired with significantly cheaper flight training. And we need to build a supply of CFI's again that actually stay and teach for *gasp!* a year or two instead of punching out at some fantasy out of context paramilitary minimum number of hours. Thinking this will be solved by lowering the mins is just stupid.
Well said, the numbers just dont make sense right now. Education and training are so un-proportionately expensive, and the wages just dont justify it. It really is a broken system.