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With optimism like this, this guy should be working for the AOPA PR department, or hyping all the high-paying openings for career-minded professional pilots.

“Something big’s gonna happen. We’re so sure of it that if my nuts were in a guillotine right now, I’d bet we haven’t seen our best days.”
     – Joseph Bruce (aka “J”), of Insane Clown Posse.
     SOURCE: “The Rise of the Juggalos” by Brian Raftery. Wired magazine, Dec 2010, pg. 228.

“We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown….” ( Abraham Lincoln — Thanksgiving Day in 1863 ) “No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God…. ( Abraham Lincoln — Regarding establishing a national day of thanksgiving. October 1863 )

I always shake my head when I hear Gallatin Airport Authority’s self-aggrandizement on the brilliance of their management and how irreplaceable are its members. Lincoln had it correct: We do not thrive as a country because of the power of mere men. Should anyone in government believe otherwise, that seems reason enough to check their ego and replace them.

Survey identifies barriers faced by female pilots…according to a study by Penny Hamilton, who has a doctorate in communications. Hamilton conducted 296 surveys or personal interviews of women and compiled the top 10 barriers faced by women in aviation. The top deterrent faced by women was lack of money for flight training, she found….” Source: AVweb (11/26/10) , AOPA Online (11/23/10)

This is a newsflash? How many tax dollars were spent to come up with this brilliance? Hell, lack of money is a problem for most people flight training, men or women! And this is the insight that AOPA thinks is going to revitalize General Aviation? Please—!

Somewhere deep in the bowls of Gallatin Airport Authority. How personnel selections really takes place….

The secret is out!