Pilot Shortage
As someone who is a UK citizen living in the US and working towards my Commercial and Instrument, any mention of pilot shortage is of great interest to me,I'm looking for some realistic answers. There are many articles in various industry magazines talking about the pilot shortage and how it will continue to get worse, is this really true?, what will the long term outcome be?
I have posted questions before about the FAA, JAA and CAA with almost no responses, is this because there is little interest or has this dead horse been beaten enough?
To me the idea of having a set of world wide Aviation standards is a good idea for obvious reasons as long as the governing bodies involved go about it in a realistic way.
Obviously the US and Europe are competent at operating helicopters, I'm not sure but I assume that a comparison of accident statistics between the two would confirm this, so why the big difference in licensing requirements (CAA, JAA Commercial ground school).
Jiff