Not everyone in the world gets to be a pilot. In fact, a fraction of 1 percent of people in the United States ever get their wings, and worldwide it's a fraction of a hundredth of a percent. Being a pilot sometimes seems common to us, because so many of our friends are pilots, and with social media, well, we know pilots from around the world. But the truth is, we're a tiny group of people who get to say that they've commanded a plane. It's something we shouldn't take lightly and that we should take great pride in. I do. And of that group of pilots, there's a sub-group, airplane owners. What percentage of active pilots are also airplane owners? It's not an easy figure to come up with, but my friends at AOPA tell me it's around one in five.
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