Flight school operators across the country are experiencing what one Florida-based instructor called ‘an inexplicable Renaissance of aviation enthusiasm that I am absolutely not going to question.’ Schools that once struggled to fill weekend ground school sessions are now running waitlists measured in months. The hottest search term on Google this week is ‘how long does it take to get a pilot license’ followed immediately by ‘what does an air traffic controller actually look like’ and then, heartbreakingly, ‘can I request a specific ATC frequency.’