I was curious from some of you flight instructors around the country about a few things.

If we were to eliminate foreign students who will eventually return to their home countries, how many American students are training to be a professional airline pilots today?

Everyone has a point of view on the so called pilot shortage. From your points of view, is there a shortage of students training as compared to maybe years past?

I'm curious what the pilot training pipeline for airline pilots might look like in 2-3 years. For example, if a new airline pilot want-to-be were to start training today, it would likely take them 2-3 years to be hireable.