8/1/2009
By Dale Smith
Between last year’s record-high fuel prices and this year’s rock-bottom economy, it’s no surprise to anyone that General Aviation flying is way, way down. That’s bad news for our industry as a whole and really bad news for the long-term health of the tens of thousands of piston engines that lie idle for weeks at a time.
While the impact of this problem would probably have gone unnoticed to most of us, luckily it didn’t slip past the folks at ConocoPhillips. "It’s just amazing how many pilots are lucky to get 30 hours of flying a year
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