I thought the topic was India, at least that was the intention of the person starting the thread.
But, if you want to talk about Singapore, you would still be wrong. "a large local pilot....." means, for example:
SIA is expanding like mad, needs 1000 pilot tomorrow with a minimun of 3000 hours total time and 1000 jet.
SIA gets 5000 applicants for the job.
Now that is a large local pilot population.
I don't think Singapore has that, sorry.


right back at ya