"RST Engineering" wrote:
Jay, as a flight instructor with something approaching five hundred
students, I'd appreciate it if you would modify your statement to that we
NEED to get every possible QUALIFIED body into the cockpit, ...

I've gently counseled about a dozen (including some with certificates) that
this might not be the avocation for them.

Jim, that's exactly what I was saying earlier in this thread from having
worked at the flight school (I'm not a CFI, but was there to observe
just the same)...about there being a (good) reason for some who "drop
out" of flying, either before or after the rating.