Thread: Pilot shortage myth?
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Old 09-10-2013, 08:53 AM
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Originally Posted by aflyingtuba View Post
As a CFI at a major university, at least on our end enrollment for flight training has been down quite a bit. Even in 08-09 in recession we'd get 120-130 new starts for the fall semester. This year:65.

A shortage may not be immediate, but how are people going to build the 1000-1500tt to move up. Not everyone can be a CFI when there aren't enough students to support it. Jump pilot, banner towing, survey get harder and harder to find anymore, and don't give you much if any x/c, instrument, or night time. Something has to give.
Do you mind saying where you instruct at? How many of the school's students are foreign with the intent of returning to their home country? Thanks.
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