The Career Flight Instructor - A Dying Breed?
It's a truism that the supply of long term flight instructors (especially CPL/ME/IR/FI instructors) is in a crisis. How are FTOs coping with this?
- Are there any useful strategies FTOs could all share?
- How is a would-be ME/IR instructor expected to progress in his/her career with the daunting prospect of gaining all that expensive multi and IR time at huge expense?
- Was there any input from the training industry when these requirements were being drawn up into JAR-FCL? Or did the industry just meekly roll over and accept it?
- Is there any scope for change, for reducing the requirements, at this stage?
- Will EASA make the situation better, or worse?
- Is any voice being heard, or for that matter uttered, in official circles regarding these questions?