The odds of making it
I was just a little bored, working out my last days being desk-type-rated before my CPL, and I came up with the following figures culled from the CAA's web site:
Holders of UK or UK-issued JAR professional licences with current medicals:
ATPL(A) 10475
CPL(A) 3352
BCPL(A) 763
TOTAL = 14590
After deducting a few from this total for the minority of people in the UK who are career GA pilots, IMHO this leaves ~14000 professional pilots chasing airline jobs.
Does anyone have any idea how many professional pilots there are employed in airlines at any one time? That way we could work out the job to unemployed ratio.
As an aside there are 2343 FI's and 283 AFI's. Although some of these are already airline pilots or are sponsored, or are career or weekend instructors, I would guess that at least 2000 of these are chasing airline jobs.
[This message has been edited by foghorn (edited 01 March 2001).]