Originally Posted by
LexAir
The flood of Chinese students into Australia is over and it it won't restart. Once this current batch of students is finished there will be little to no inflow of new Chinese students. They already have massive flying schools in China turning out 2000 pilots a year per school. The school at Chengdu - Civil Aviation Flying University of China - is an example. I have been there and it is not going away. the current situation will focus China more on domestic training utilising its current assets.
Good luck with ab initio training in Chengdu. I operated into there regularly for years, never were conditions anywhere near VMC. Australia will only be a training destination as long as China needs it, this was always the case.