Instructor Shortage
Where is this instructor shortage coming from? The airlines aren't really recruiting at an amazing pace, but still almost every instructor that goes through the FI course is offered a job before the course ends, some are even offered a place before the course starts. How can you tell that a pilot is decent enough to instruct before they go through the course?
Out of interest how many instructors out there have not got a job, or only have part time work, when they want full time work? ie they don't have another full time job and instruct at the weekends.