Originally Posted by
hargreaves99
It's hard to tell. As this also includes type rating instructors in VIP, Offshore, Police and HEMS roles.
At a rough guess...there are about 20 PPL/CPL schools in the uk (ie R22/R44/Cabri), so at an average of 4 instructors per school, that means about 80-100 instructors who are working?
Although I think there are more people who have the FI rating but don't use it, or it's expired.
Does that include DTO's?
However many instructors are out there, I expect at least a third of them will be engaged in commercial work or doing it part time and therefore not full time instructors. It's more likely these guys will give it up if the going gets too tough.