What is general aviation? The Mooney Ambassadors took that question on the road, taping man-on-the-street interviews with the public. The responses are surprising, according to a report at AOPA.org. “Like Southwest Airlines,” one man responded, while another explained the term as “everybody who flies all the big airplanes.” Another response: “Like a general in the army, a general that flies.” Read the full story here.
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It is not only the non-aviation persons who use the term General Aviation to refer to just those airplanes which haul a lot of persons and cargo. In a number of private conversations with airport personnel I have sensed that the term did not mean the same to each of us and when questioned about the term many do not consider it to include small utilitarian aircraft like the Cessna 150 or 152, the Piper Warrior or it’s predecessors, the Maule, the Swift, or any number of smaller privately flown aircraft. We were talking, but not communicating because the term meant different things to each of us.