Originally Posted by
jester_s1
Wingspinner- I learned a few things from your post. I knew GA had reduced, but wasn't aware of the details. Of course, one could say that the FAA wanted to see GA go down due to the fact that safety in GA hasn't been nearly as good as in commercial aviation. Perhaps there is some nanny state thinking going on, or maybe there's an attitude that flight is a rich man's activity in general?
I still going to stick with my belief that the FAA couldn't care less about our hobby. As long as we aren't interfering with full scale planes, I can't see them going to a lot of trouble to hassle us.
There's been the opinion in GA for years that the FAA is trying to push them out of the skies. I first heard it in the 1960's. The GA manufacturers use to build "trainers". But when the courts started to make them pay for the idiot students who killed themselves, Piper, Cessna, etc quit building planes designated and in some cases designed as trainers.
Once we're fully under the management of the FAA and some idiot manages to kill someone with their toy airplane, the Fat Lady will Sing.