Originally Posted by
gloopy
What do I support? That's a pretty broad question. I like puppies and world peace, although I think soccer is stupid (but so does the rest of America thankfully).
As for promoting the growth of flight schools, its clear that we lack sufficient infrastructure for training new pilots relative to projected demand. Its not necessarily a matter of more schools, but we do/will need more instructors and students going to flight schools. This isn't even debatable.
While we may collectively gain some amount of pricing power from a "shortage" that will be short lived and is not a strategy towards restoration. If we can't get enough new pilots into the system we will all suffer because our entire industry will lose out. Eventually the pressure to allow cabotage as well as further aiding and abetting foreign enemy airlines hell bent on poaching our entire industry out from under us will only increase if we can't find a way to asuage our pilot shortage at least to a reasonable degree.
As for taking the lower cost comments out of context, I think we have way too much 6 figure Bravo Sierra in all our education systems. Way too many flight schools are gravitating to insane all glass hyper expensive fleets/programs when what we need is experience. Its not going to be "cheap" either way, but the issues we face will only get worse if the only solution we throw at it is a 6 figure flight school model on top of a 6 figure bachleors degree. That's asinine, unsustainable and completely out of scale with reality.
Yep...you are still acting as if you are with the RAA or you own a flight school. Are you advocating the Government (or someone other than airlines) should subsidize flight schools to help provide a cheaper path for flight training and low cost pilots for the regionals?
Some of the finer points of what you said...
Originally Posted by
gloopy
its clear that we lack sufficient infrastructure for training new pilots relative to projected demand. Its not necessarily a matter of more schools, but we do/will need more instructors and students going to flight schools. This isn't even debatable.
This is what the RAA says. Why would you, as an alleged pilot, feel it's in pilots best interests to increase labor supply?
Originally Posted by
gloopy
Its not going to be "cheap" either way, but the issues we face will only get worse if the only solution we throw at it is a 6 figure flight school model on top of a 6 figure bachleors degree. That's asinine, unsustainable and completely out of scale with reality.
So you want to make piloting an airliner a totally blue collar occupation that requires no college but rather some low cost vocational training with on the job apprenticeships? Because that's what you just said.
Originally Posted by
gloopy
While we may collectively gain some amount of pricing power from a "shortage" that will be short lived and is not a strategy towards restoration.
Restoration of what? Airline profits? You are actually trying to tell us that an actual shortage of pilots is not going to help restore the profession?????
Originally Posted by
gloopy
Eventually the pressure to allow cabotage as well as further aiding and abetting foreign enemy airlines hell bent on poaching our entire industry out from under us will only increase if we can't find a way to asuage our pilot shortage at least to a reasonable degree.
!!!??!?!? Really!? You definitely are working for the RAA. You probably aren't even a real pilot. My guess is that you are working with a PR company to troll forums trying to convince real pilots of the RAA agenda.
The regional path is and always will be a great way to gain time and experience, but there are other great ways too. FWIW I am LOVING watching the dirt bag bottom feeder regionals scramble for pilots and raising compensation. I want thier costs to go up and go up a lot. That takes real pressure off of the bottom end of mainline scope issues, which we also need to address and improve.
That makes no sense. It's like you're saying it because you think that's what pilots want to hear. Pilots don't want to see regionals lose money necessarily, they want to see them pay pilots professional and competitive wages and it's hard for them to do that if they don't make money. Ideally the regional jet flying should just be assimilated back into mainline flying along with the jets....and maybe replaced with more larger jets. The PR firm you work for can go find another client because the RAA will die along with the regional airline model.
Your thinly veiled point is still completely ridiculous though. You think that because there are 76 seat RJ's flying around that ergo soon legacy pilot groups will sign away widebody international FO positions to out of seniority MPL pilots. That is not going to happen. Ever.
That makes no sense either since I never said anything like that.
Trends can be a useful tool, but its important not to take them out of context. Do you white knuckle your armrests and start screaming "AIRSPEED! STALL! AIRSPEED!" every time the other pilot slows 10 kts? That's the trend, after all.
I don't understand what point you were trying to make on that last part. And by the way soccer is gaining ground in America lately too.