Originally Posted by
WesternSkies
I think it is a good step in making flight schools solvent and instructing a career choice.
If the price to entry normalizes higher (professionals making what Joe Blow off the street wouldn’t blink and eye at) the industry wages would never go back to $18/hour because the pilot well would dry up again if they did.
The word is definitely out and supply is ticking higher.
This^^^
Of course, the career will always be subject to the ups and downs of oil prices, at least until we can develop cheap and reliable synthetic fuel sources, and if that were easy it woukd have already been done.