Here's the average age of pilots, comparing 1993 to 2003:

The numbers are meaningless (though influential) without a comparison to
non-pilot actuarial data. The entire country is getting old, for the
same reason the social security system is broken. Baby boomers didn't
put enough babies into the pot.

Do the pilot certificate numbers merely reflect this national trend, or
is there a decline on top of it, or does it buck the trend (but not
sufficiently to cause an increase? I don't know, but that's where a
good part of the solution would lie.

Jose
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