There's no question now is not the time to start a career in flying, but could a person looking at going into flying for a career be at an advantage because of the recession? Ex. Odds are, less people are going into flight training now because their trying to save their pennies, if I were to start taking lessons now, in a year or two....the economy might be in a better place. major airline captains would start retiring, attrition would begin to occur, and flight schools and corporate flight departments would be hiring and since there might be a shortage of pilots that went into the flight training because of the recession there might be quite a bit of advancement fairly quickly. But what do I know. I just have shinny jet syndrome. what do you/anyone think?