Old 03-10-2011, 03:14 PM
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Remember that getting your CFI doesn't correlate with actively instructing. Many collegiate flying programs force you to get your CFI/CFII, so many people get them with no desire to instruct.

Then you have airline/corporate/charter guys who keep their instructing certificate current just because they want the option of it (nice to give BFRs, etc.).

There may be 96K "active" flight instructor certificates, but I'd be surprised if there were more than 30K truly active instructors at this point.
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