1. There will be no pilot shortage. There won't even be a shortage of people willing to fly jets for 4-800 dollar paychecks every two weeks. Just because airlines are doing limited hiring doesn't mean there will ever be a shortage and everyone will have jobs now. Need more evidence? They don't even hire mostly CFIs anymore, because prior 121 guys are beating the doors down.

2. It is nearly impossible in today's instructing climate to get 1,500 hours in a reasonable time frame, and to get the cross country. You'd have to work at ATP, and there is an 8 month backlog to get into standardizations after you graduate. I work at a very high volume school, because 141 foreign ab initio is one of the few ways to get any hours at all besides ATP, and the syllabus and scheduling does not support going out and turning their training into scenario based cross countries. That's most of these forieng ab initio places.


The 'bah humbugs' of older more experienced pilots regarding the difficulties experienced by new pilots are out of ignorance. There's never been a generation faced with what we are. I look forward to learning how to be a better pilot from you guys one day....if I ever get a 141 job. I've been 300 hours from even the potential of meeting mins for 12 months. They raise them as I get them.