Why is aviation a dead end career?

Answer 1

1. Over-regulation and an outdated style of FAA certification severely hurts aviation in many ways, and causes enormous costs to be shouldered by businesses, pilots, and customers. For example, if you had an idea for a part for an aircraft, there is no set procedure for reaching certification. This means innovation is limited to large corporations who are well known to the FAA which prevents smaller businesses from competing. This also causes the line between profit and safety to always be blurred and tilted in the favor of larger corporations who can use their relationships with the FAA to produce parts or aircraft while a small business has no benefit. Long story longer, the FAA policies tend to push aviation sectors into niche-monopolies.

2. As the US increases taxes it limits a very large portion of those who normally could afford to own aircraft. The government has decided that people who make high incomes should not use their disposable income for flying, instead, their disposable income should be distributed to cover entitlement programs for the lower income people.

3. The value of aircraft now decline, where 10 years ago, aircraft used to appreciate in value.

4. Aviation is a service based industry which means lower margins.

5. Jobs in aviation tend to hold no value to any other industry. With the massive decline in the majority of the aviation industry, if you lose your job you have no skills anyone will want. .