Comments on: A passion for Flight http://blog.aopa.org/leadingedge/?p=1371 A place to discuss safety-of-flight issues, procedures, techniques, and judgment. Thu, 23 May 2013 12:18:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Bruce Landsberg http://blog.aopa.org/leadingedge/?p=1371&cpage=1#comment-30314 Bruce Landsberg Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:46:04 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/asfblog/?p=1371#comment-30314 David….

Profound comment!!! Too many people just want to do their thing and go flying. “Let AOPA deal with it. I’ve done my part. ” is the mindset of too many. If there was ever a time and place to think globally and act locally – preserving GA as we know it – now would be that time. We could spend much more time on this response discussing success where local pilots have gotten involved and failures when they haven’t.

Thanks for your note and willingness to get engaged!

]]> By: David Reinhart http://blog.aopa.org/leadingedge/?p=1371&cpage=1#comment-30309 David Reinhart Fri, 24 Dec 2010 12:50:03 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/asfblog/?p=1371#comment-30309 I clicked “other” in the poll and would like to have seen “all of the above”. At my home airport experience has shown that we need a multi-pronged approach that covers pretty much every PR opportunity.

One of the things that concerns me is the unwillingness of many pilots to get involved in the political or rule making process. When something like LASP shows up I’d like to see a minimum of 10% of pilots making comments (which would be about 45,000) and preferably 90%, or about 400,000. The numbers never come close to that. On the local level trying to get pilots to write or call city councilors or the mayor’s office is an extremely difficult & frustrating proposition.

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