I think the six-thousand-dollar part is where a lot of viewers will stop
listening. I can't find Part I but the medical part would also lose a fair
number of viewers.

$6K is what a cheap used car costs around here. It's also the price
of a single semester at our public university, which has 30,000
students. Clearly, money is not the over-riding issue keeping more
people out of the cockpit.

The medical requirement is, quite frankly, a joke. The doc checks
your eyes, your heart, makes sure you can carry on a conversation, and
takes your check. Heck, you don't even have to "turn your head and
cough" to get signed off for a 3rd class medical.

If it were as difficult to drive as it is to fly, cars would be so rare that
they'd turn heads as they passed (and people would be trying to forbid them to
escape the noise).

I wish. Cars can do things that planes can't. Further, personal cars
do more necessary things than personal planes can do. I own both --
and I drive a heckuva lot more than I fly, for the reasons I've
stated. Trust me -- if planes *could* substitute for cars, I'd fly
every day.

Conversely, if it were as easy to fly as it is to drive, the landscape would
be littered with the wreckage of planes and cadavers, but the aircraft would
only cost $15,000 or so, and new models would come out every year, rendering
the old ones obsolete.

Two things keep more people from flying: Ignorance and fear.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"