I have just been in Hamilton for the last 4 days for "buisness" and I had the opportunity to meet some of New Zealands finest young multi-IFR instructors..They all seemed to agree that there arent many New Zealand born students at their schools anymore but lots of Foreign students are keeping them busy. So I can sort of believe that we will run out of qualified pilots eventually.
How is it that New Zealand has gone so far backwards in the 10 years that I've been flying that the "rich nations" sending their kids out here are India and China???