As long as I’ve been involved in general aviation, there’s been gloom and doom about the expense, about student starts, about user fees and about how “all this is going away.” In response, I often point out that, like any industry, GA goes through changes. Yes, GA “as we know it” is changing, but the romanticized taildragger on a grass runway and everyone helping each other out still exists—you just have to look harder for it. Sometimes, it comes to you.
