Originally Posted by
jayray2
I agree, at first it looks like that. However I bring this up every time this topic comes up, many of those are not Americans, maybe even the majority of them are not. Go around the country and look at some of the big flight schools, almost all of their students are Indians, Chinese or handful of other nationalities.
Originally Posted by
Bellanca
I'm not sure there is majority of foreign pilots, but definitely a significant number (maybe 20-30%).
Some anecdotal evidence. Recently coworkers of mine flew for a few weeks up and down the west coast with a lot of time spent in the LA basin, the CA central valley, and around Redding, CA. They came back with stories to tell of airwaves filled with Chinese speaking students and it seemed that many of the FBOs were filled with foreign students in the airline pilot style uniforms milling about the place.
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