ALPA Says There Are Plenty Of Pilots, Instructors - AVweb

How many of those CFIs are actively doing training? So many instructors, myself included, aren’t doing training but still have a current CFI certificate. I keep it that way because I don’t want to have to do the checkride again, but I have no plans on using it anytime soon. The same goes for ATP certificates for a lot of pilots.

ALPA loves to cite these statistics, but rarely likes to give the full story.