Not so, says the Alliance for Aviation Across America, a confederation of small aircraft groups.
The small aircraft alliance favors a House measure that passed its initial committee review last week.
Fact: Asia's airport infrastructure is underdeveloped and most runways can handle only small aircraft, not jumbo jets.
Piloting small aircraft represents the riskiest type of transportation, according to fatality data analyzed for the study.
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The idea is to introduce air travel on demand, using Web-based software to route small aircraft as needed.
As small aircraft become simpler to fly, so a new market will emerge for direct flights between local airports.
Flying a small aircraft may never be child's play, but it is coming closer and closer to resembling a video game.
NASA, America's space agency, has been looking at: many more flights by small aircraft into the myriad airports scattered across the country.
Designers of small aircraft, in particular, concentrated on the corporate jet market.
Deputy Kevin Stewart, the Commerce and Employment minister, said a "special offer" would be extended to attract more small aircraft to the island.
Executives licensed to fly small aircraft led 176 of 2, 073 major public companies at some point between 1992 and 2009, a recent study says.
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Aviation accidents involving small aircraft are not uncommon in mountainous Nepal.
Dr Coen's team, for example, uses an infra-red camera to video fires as they happen, from the vantage point of a crane or a small aircraft.
The small aircraft can be fitted with lightweight cameras.
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But the helicopters and small aircraft from neighbouring Tajikistan and Pakistan that at once started to arrive in Faizabad, carrying medical and other relief supplies to be flown to outlying villages, were soon desperately overstretched.
In one corner is the ATA. They say the number of small aircraft and corporate jets exploded from 1, 800 to 18, 000 since 1970, jamming America's air traffic control system, but the fees paid haven't kept pace.
Alan Klapmeier, the co-founder of Cirrus, notes that glass cockpits transform the safety and ease-of-use of small aircraft, and could make them accessible to many people who were previously put off flying by the daunting complexity of an aircraft's controls.
If Innodyn succeeds, remote power sources and small-aircraft propulsion may never be the same.
Controlled via a tablet computer, the small autonomous aircraft will photograph poachers and track animals via smart radio tags.
The airlines uses small ATR aircraft but with the introduction of Airbus flights on metro routes it hopes to entice more people to fly.
Suddenly, these small training aircraft cost more to buy than decent homes or luxury cars and the impact on flight training was even more acute.
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In fact, SLCMs permit virtually every combatant ship in the inventory to enjoy a crucial capability which once resided exclusively in the relatively small number of aircraft carriers: the ability to defend itself and to project naval power over great ranges by holding at risk enemy shipping and targets ashore.
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And these same advances are being exploited in a new generation of diesel engines for use in small fixed-wing aircraft.
The aircraft made up a small part of Operation Bolero, a build-up of allied aircraft in Britain championed by President Franklin Roosevelt.
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But sources on the ground said peasants are now cultivating very small fields to avoid the attention of the spraying aircraft, and many of these are too small to appear on the satellite imagery the UN based its report on.
The RAF still carries out communication work for aircraft on a small part of the site.
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The small, twin-engine aircraft disappeared mid-morning local time on Friday and has not been traced since.
The firm specialises in small and medium-sized aircraft for regional markets and is best known for its Learjet executive plane.
Two men have been injured after a light aircraft crashed near a small airfield in Hampshire.
Low-cost guided missiles, often carried on small drones rather than expensive piloted aircraft, will change it further still.
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