Comments on: Sonoma pilots Rally GA! http://blog.aopa.org/aopanow/?p=739 Online perspective from the office of the President Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:07:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Paul Peterson http://blog.aopa.org/aopanow/?p=739#comment-406 Paul Peterson Sun, 17 Apr 2011 22:09:24 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/aopanow/?p=739#comment-406 It’s wonderful that AOPA has the available resources to help support and participate in meetings like this. I thought the Sonoma Jet Center and Josh Hochberg did an excellent job in hosting the event. The sound system (usually a low point of events like this) worked superbly. The comments shared by Jon Dauplaise of Cirrus were well received, especially those comments about his son’s perspective on aviation and learning to fly. Although the topic was addressed and discussed, the large issue of a declining GA pilot population still needs to receive the lions share of our attention. I heard lots of little ideas that will help, but no big ideas that are going to turn this situation around. It’s nice to know that GA pilots have a strong national association like AOPA to fight and address the many issues that confront GA today.

As a side note, it would have been nice to see the California Pilots Association involved in this meeting. As AOPA plans additional town meetings like, please don’t fail to include the State Pilot Associations. Like AOPA, they are key in helping to win the many battles faced by GA.

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