Originally Posted by
bafanguy
No. Those statistics are not even close to being realistic...the reason is that they count EVERYONE who is training to be a pilot. Since the US has the most airspace, airports, airplanes and flight schools, many foreign airlines train their cadets here, and many foreigners come here for flight training. There are MANY flight schools with a very high percentage of their students who are foreign: They cannot work as CFIs, and cannot work for the US carriers. That is one of the reasons the CFI shortage is so bad...a lot of students need them, and many of the newly minted Comm/Inst pilots dont have a passport or greencard, so can't work as CFIs...