Experts in print media say that it’s bad form for an editor to focus his/ her remarks on the magazine itself. “Be original,” they say. “Write about something related to the industry.” I’m going to ignore that guidance, but—I hope you’ll agree—with good reason.
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last 40 years you know that general aviation has seen its heyday and is, for the most part, shrinking. New aircraft deliveries, once in the thousands per year, now make headlines with mere hundreds. Recent increases in training, and even saturated flight schools, have not yet translated into a financial resurgence of the market. Perhaps they will. Hopefully they will.
