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Why would-be pilots are being kept out of airline cockpits - Fortune Management

Poor Mr. Wilkinson. He may have to instruct. For a year. If I were ERAU I wouldn't hire him. He has zero interest in teaching. Just building time and moving on. Building time as a CFI is fine, but you owe it to your students to embrace it and not be discouraged b/c you 'have' to do it.

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I would be most pilots on the regionals were hired with more than 1,000 hours anyways. It's not like getting hired into an airline at 300 hours was really ever the norm.

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Sorry, typo...I would bet most pilots in the regionals.

Who told this moron of an author that crop dusting is a time building job? ???

In the immortal words of Dr. Evil;

"Boo Frickity Hoo!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woDjWnR9Nns

From the article:

Wilkinson, 21, will leave Embry-Riddle with a bachelor's degree and about 250-300 hours of flying time. He enrolled at the university thinking that would be enough to land him in the co-pilot seat at a regional airline. But when Wilkinson graduates in the spring of 2015, those 300 hours in the air will leave him 700 hours short of an entry-level airline job.

"It was discouraging," Wilkinson tells Fortune. "It will require me to spend more time building up hours as a flight trainer." Wilkinson now plans to apply for a flight instructor position at Embry-Riddle after graduation. Working in that role for a year or so will put him over the 1,000-hour threshold

AWWWWWE...Someone moved his cheese!:eek: Welcome to life buddy.:cool:

Riddle "in" the news.
 

Don't know if anyone noticed, but when NBC interviewed Greg Fiefth last night about the Malaysian flight, he was standing in front of a jet with the Embry-Riddle logo on the tail.

So...there are still folks going into the airlines. So much for all that "pilot shortage" myth (again)...this kid can't wait to jump into a jet. No doubt there are many others in his generation looking to do the same.