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Old 25th Mar 2007, 20:59
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slatch
 
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I agree with Amin. I see a serious CFI shortage happening. I have observed more students, mainly Indian/Chinese waiting to start/continue flight training at local schools. Western students are considered easier to teach do to language issues so they seem to have an easier time finding instructors. A couple of friends who are CFI/retired airline pilots say they have more potential students than they can deal with. They used to just have one student at a time just to keep busy. Now they are continually picking up students whose CFI has left in the middle of their training for a regional job. Real issue for the non-us student to have to deal with an instructor switch mid stream. But I see them becoming burnt out and don't think they will continue to accept the workload much longer.
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