Originally Posted by Bucking Bar

Good site. Does no one buy a clapped out Cessna and do flight training on the cheap anymore? No one joins the Civil Air Patrol to fly their C182s and get into the military flying clubs for really cheap initial training?

There are still ways to get most of your training done economically, but students seem to LIKE going in debt and placing their faith in some high dollar flight simulator / Cirrus school.

Also I believed the "pilot shortage" may actually arrive in 2014. It was delayed by September 11th, then age 65, but by golly unless my airline really shrinks we will have to hire close to a 1,000 a year to keep up.