Paul, I think our issue is not the shortage of CFI-G’s, but their reluctance to use their rating. Our club has three who are licensed but don’t teach. I think you will see the same trend nationally. Just in the last issue of Soaring there are at least five new cfi’s in the picture section, but I wonder how many of them are actually going to become active in teaching.

As for guys meeting the FAA standards to get a rating, I think my post above and walts experience says/demonstrates what we think about that.