Originally Posted by
stanthecaddy
True, but the point I'm trying to make is that there are "newly minted CFIs " . There are enough of them to go to Skywest and there are enough of them to go to XJT and stagnate. I might believe there was a pilot shortage if those 78 new hires were dispersed amongst all the regionals. But 78 for ONE regional? Lots of pilots out there.
I tend to agree with you. I guess we would have to look into the data ie number of student starts, number of cfi's issued, number of new people added to seniority lists each month etc..