Experts argue over GA’s future at FAA confab
Several speakers at the FAA’s 10th annual general aviation forecast conference, held in Wichita April 15 and 16, disputed the agency’s numerical prophecies

Several speakers at the FAA’s 10th annual general aviation forecast conference, held in Wichita April 15 and 16, disputed the agency’s numerical prophecies. Helicopter Association International president Roy Resavage asserted the FAA was underestimating the number of in-service civil helicopters by 50 percent, skewing that part of the forecast. Further, AOPA president Phil Boyer contended that the agency severely deflated the number of student starts in the next decade, distorting all of the following assumptions made on those numbers.

The “growing role of general aviation in intercity transportation” panel discussed the obvious by saying as a country we are not investing sufficiently in capacity issues, such as runways and infrastructure.

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