Clob the reason why you won't get any real numbers is because the CAA won't release them because its commercially sensitive
They could very easily produce
1. Number of intial Class 1 medicals
2. Number of students sitting one exam
3. Number of students passing all 14 exams
4. Number of students obtaining CPL
5. Number of students obtaining intial IR.
6. Number of pilots getting intial type rating.
But they won't because the whole industry operates by having an over supply of fresh meat ready to go on type ratings when they need to expand.
Currently this means they can have a 3 month reaction time. If there wasn't an over supply and they had to train thier own they would have a 18 month to 2 years reaction time.
And I might add as well that if folk don't train the capacity of the system decreases which puts even more lag into the reaction time. I believe the current european capacity is 1200 pilots a year. How much of that capacity is currently being used I don't know
Last edited by mad_jock; 13th Oct 2010 at 11:24.