Yeah? Well our school is absolutely haemorrhaging instructors at the moment, they're sodding off to airlines and real flying jobs at an unbelievable rate. Apart from the CFI, I'm the only one left now that's got over 1000 hours, and there's only one other unrestricted FI. Our desired staffing level at this time of year coming up to summer, would have to be at least 6 to 8 experienced instructors and a couple of newbies ... we're sorted for low timers but the experienced replacements are just nowhere to be found.
Maybe people just aren't willing to pack bags and move to Scotland for the admittedly rather average amount of money that's on offer, but large numbers of hours are guaranteed all summer long, and the flying / working environment is as good as I've ever had - I must say I'm a little surprised at the lack of suitable job applicants. So I say yes, there is an instructor shortage, you've just got to know where to look ...
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