Instructors----where Are They????

[schoolboy]

Following on from the "MECIR or instructors rating" thread, where the BL***Y HELL are these instructors?

Sure there are a few (and I mean FEW) grade 3's with really low hours out there who are looking to progress through the ranks to grade 1, but that just about pulls it up. It's a sorry state of affairs to think just where our industry will end up if the only reason a newby pilot is only using the instructor rating to get hours and then move on to bigger (and better????) things. One starts to wonder if there will ever be good quality, well qualified, good flying time teachers in the not too distant future? Certainly indications are that the direction we are heading will leave us with 70y/o grade 1's and jack s**t of any thing else with experience. Do we want the training regime to end up like the LAME scene? When was the last time you saw an experienced 30/40 y/o LAME? Sure there are a few, but like the grade 1 & 2 instructors, only a few!

It's not hard to peer into the future and see we will simply not be able to offer the expertise or number of good instructors to meet the demand.