In most of the schools that I've been involved with over the last four years (including possibly the UK's busiest PPL school) the same faces are instructing as were there 18 months to two years ago. Six months prior to that new instructors were popping up left right and centre to replace instructors off to the airlines. That deomostrates to me how things have changed.
No movement to the airlines means no free instructor posts As WWW says add in the economic malaise and big increase in costs and you get contraction in the training industry, meaning that less instructors are required.
I am of the personal opinion that the rampant IT contracting market of the late 1990s fuelled a PPL training boom, because lots of people who dreamed of flying as kids suddenly had the disposable income to get their PPLs. I doubt if we'll see times like those in the near future.
cheers!
foggy.
Last edited by foghorn; 7th Mar 2003 at 21:06.