I am only offering my projected expectations of the future based upon my study and experience of the past. Anything could in fact happen. Things could be not so bad or they could be fantastically worse than even I can imagine. However if you were to study the history of aviation and attempt to project its path into the future is in not a very happy place.

It seems to me that every 20 to 25 years there is a boom in aviation to be followed by a sharp and hard downturn that takes most of the next 20 years to recover from. Pilots who were hired just a year ago have much better future prospects than guys who are trying to get their first instructing jobs today.

Last year regionals were trolling flight schools for pilots. In the mid 1990's new hire commuter airline classes were mostly populated by high time learjet captains and military superstars. Those times are due to return.

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