Originally Posted by
DontLookDown
Seeing the drop off in career students is an interesting insight into human psychology.
This career is like playing the stock market. You want to get in when things are bleak and not when things have been going great for a long time. Most people seem to not grasp that concept.
Even before COVID, we all knew the reset was long overdue. We were just hoping retirements would muffle the devastation.
No such luck. Now that the reset has happened though I’d argue it’s a great time to get the training started. 3-4 years from now someone just starting out today will have their ratings and time logged as the airlines start looking to hire 1500 hour pilots again
Maybe, maybe not.
Some people returned in the 2014-2019 timeframe because the career looked promising and nearly bulletproof for the first time in 50 years.
2020 exposed that as a lie and proved that even in the greatest "shortage" times this career is very volatile and unstable. Some have seen it for what it really is and got out.