1. first you can pay for training, and put people straight to the right seat, thats how many parts of the world do it.

2. have the guy in the right seat not a real pilot, again how most of the world does it.

3.increase use of unmanned aircraft, this helps free up pilots for aircraft that need pilots.

The only curve ball I see is, I would like to see the stats of how many people are going overseas for better jobs. Also someone is going to come back and say, that the number of new pilot certificates issued has no really decrease, but the bulk of those are all over seas pilots who come here to learn.