Aviation experts predict that within six months, approximately 97% of the new student pilot applicants will quietly abandon their flight training after discovering that actual ground school involves 60-hour textbooks about weather fronts and fuel calculations, and that commercial ATC frequencies are entirely anonymous. The remaining 3% will genuinely catch the flying bug, earn their licenses, and become lifelong aviators — and if you ask them why they started, they will look you dead in the eye and say ‘I just always loved planes, man.’ The FAA, for its part, has announced it is hiring additional ATC personnel, and the application numbers for those positions have also inexplicably skyrocketed. America, never change.