Originally Posted by
Cubdriver
Why not? Because the FAA certification of Airline Trasport pilot is not good enough for them?
Being picky is their any employer's prerogative by all means, but when they are choosy it does not equate to a supply shortage. If you go to the grocery store and prime rib is too expensive and you pass on getting any, that does not mean there was a shortage of prime rib.
All this, because they would not risk it on a pilot with a busted checkride or a maybe several out of say, 9 check ride test events plus another 5 or so written test events? No sympathy here, no sympathy at all. It is not a real pilot shortage by that definition. They could hire people with all 9 failed practical and all 5 failed written exams rather than park airplanes, but they choose not to do so.
We already know there's one. What's your point?
we'll see
Being a "professional" pilot includes making sure one never gets a DUI and that one never gets a Criminal record.
Big part of being a Professional Airline Pilot is having good judgement and DUI and a record shows a weakness in judgement.
When it comes to failed checkrides it is looked at every individual case and it depends what they failed and if there is a trend or not.
Any company in any industry that hires "Professionals" have requirements and a min acceptable qualifications.
Just because the min for the FAA is just to have an ATP does not cut it. If they would only follow that and something happens the FAA will make them explain what they were thinking hiring a pilot with a trend of failures and a record. We have seen what that can cause in the past.
I hope as a "Professional pilot" that we never hear that it is ok to hire pilots with DUI, criminal records and a trend of failures just because we have a shortage of pilots. I know some places will eventually because they are getting desperate.
I wish the Regionals would instead increase the pay and use that to attract enough "Professional" pilots instead of lowering the bar.
There are a lot of pilots outside the profession without any problems or records that are doing something else because the Regionals do not pay enough.