Originally Posted by MTOP

Your analysis is quite accurate. Pilot training in North America is not well organized as an industry and has not produced the capacity necessary to meet the demand. This is in part due to the fact that flight instruction is primarily administered by the very same pilots that make up the entry-level of the commercial airlines. In the U.S., flight instruction is given primarily by the least experienced and least qualified from among the available pilots, and those same inexperienced pilots have been in demand by airline companies seeking to employ the inexperienced pilots at the lowest possible cost.


While the possibility of an economic recession in the U.S., coupled with recent air carrier failures and those soon to come may provide a short-term adjustment in supply, the long term solution to any pilot shortage will require a fundamental change to the way in which pilots are recruited, trained and paid.

Originally Posted by papacharlie

I think the shortage of pilots has to do with the low payin jobs out there.Also in the school Im training 98% of the student are from India and I've seen only a few american pilots in training (3 or 4).
I'm currently in training to get my instrument rating and then my commercial pilot license (I have 600 with argentinain licenses and getting FAA licenses now) and my bank account in only 2 weeks of training and just 6.5 hour of dual was $1400 short.
To be a pilot now days is too expensive and the starting payin jobs are ridiculus.Thats why there is a shortage of pilots,in my honest opinion.Nobody wants to spend $70.000 and up to get a $18.000 job.

Originally Posted by acl65pilot

but who will make those changes. It needs to be us and the unions. Kind of like the AMA for Doctors. If we can do that then we have a fighting chance.

Originally Posted by papacharlie

I think the shortage of pilots has to do with the low payin jobs out there.Also in the school Im training 98% of the student are from India and I've seen only a few american pilots in training (3 or 4).
I'm currently in training to get my instrument rating and then my commercial pilot license (I have 600 with argentinain licenses and getting FAA licenses now) and my bank account in only 2 weeks of training and just 6.5 hour of dual was $1400 short.
To be a pilot now days is too expensive and the starting payin jobs are ridiculus.Thats why there is a shortage of pilots,in my honest opinion.Nobody wants to spend $70.000 and up to get a $18.000 job.

Originally Posted by SkyHigh

The creation of the Multi-Crew License will insure a limitless supply of cheaply made and cheaply paid pilots. In time US airlines will start up cadet programs just like in Europe and will then have a slave resource of indentured servants.

SkyHigh