Originally Posted by papacharlie

I think the shortage of pilots has to do with the low payin jobs out there.Also in the school Im training 98% of the student are from India and I've seen only a few american pilots in training (3 or 4).
I'm currently in training to get my instrument rating and then my commercial pilot license (I have 600 with argentinain licenses and getting FAA licenses now) and my bank account in only 2 weeks of training and just 6.5 hour of dual was $1400 short.
To be a pilot now days is too expensive and the starting payin jobs are ridiculus.Thats why there is a shortage of pilots,in my honest opinion.Nobody wants to spend $70.000 and up to get a $18.000 job.