Am I just stoopid or what. If we need a JAR CPL FI(A) (and all the cost and stuff that goes with it) to teach then how does the economic climate, airline recruitment and all else change this? Someone, somewhere, sometime decided that this was a requirement. If this is now (potentially) no longer the case is this decision maker going to fall on his sword and forfeit his final salary government pension to reimburse me for all of my "uneccesary" training as someone who only ever wanted to teach? Shortage or not. What we should or should not need to know can't change that much in such a short space of time. The majority of the fleet I teach on hasn't changed in 30 years, how can the training, education and skill level of those teaching need to change so much when the equipment hasn't? Maybe a C152 was easy to fly before JAR then got harder since JAR hence we needed to know more but it is set to get easier again, that must be it.................or maybe I am just stoopid?