CFI, you must have got your BCPL the same time as moi! I got mine in '90, then it seemed like the next day everything went haywire, no jobs anywhere. When I got my AFI I could not even get part time instructing, first renewal was done with 40 hours of instructing under my belt! It gradully changed, but it seems to have got to the present state only in the last 3 years or so. The UK is very different now than it was back then so I doubt if there will again be the famine of jobs that we suffered. But it is cylical and everyone should be fully aware of that. I only wish Oz would get hit with the job boom!!