Anyone have a friend that works for a news channel or agency? Send this to them and get them to do a story on "why we face a pilot shortage" Making this known to the flying public would help us when the airlines cry about how new ATP regs have dried up their pool of applicants. This is a great example of a qualified pilot that can't afford to work for an airline. How many more like this are there??? How can they attract new pilots to an industry that can't keep the ones they already have.