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I have saved an article by Larry E. Nazimek titled, "'Qualified' The impending pilot shortage: Was there ever such an animal" written in 1992 for all these years. It's factual, humorous and has been proven to be true since he wrote the article.

I have scoured the internet looking for it, it was in the old "Air Transport" magazine, but I can't find it anywhere.

When I began my aviation training in 1979, there was talk of an impending pilot shortage. I think we had a little shortage around 10 years ago, but other than that, I've been holding my breath for the alleged shortage.

It's too late for me, but I truly hope that one day pilots will get paid what they deserve, Captain's authority will stop degrading, someone either comes out with a CRM class that does anything or just gives up and that Human Resources one day stops running Flight Ops.

If we get iPads, that will be the singular improvement I have seen in my 30 year aviation career (all the new avionics are nice but I wonder if we have lost a certain amount of pure flying skills and decision making with all the automation). Every aspect of aviation has been a long, slow slide towards the bottom. I hope for all of you young folks that it turns around one day.

I do support ATP minimums to fly in any seat of a jet, I'd even go as far as ATP for any seat in a turbo-prop that requires 2 pilots (not by Company policy but by the regs).

Best of luck guys.

Oh yeah, and that one day pilots are once again hired by Flight Ops and pilots instead of by HR. Who can forget Sandy at SWA and Judy at AA?

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Originally Posted by samballs (Post 1185733)

I'm with you until you say the "me"generation. I'd like to point out the baby boomer generation has f'd this country up beyond repair

Plus1000000........

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Originally Posted by Embraego (Post 1187303)

Structural or company-performance mtow? I figure length due to the fact that ar/er/xr versions are usually the same size and the 'rates' can be standardized industry wide.

The company can pay the manufacturer for a piece of paper that changes the MTOW. Don't know how common it is in the US, but aircraft weights vary seasonally in Europe, where some fees are assessed based on MTOW. If we really are going to go by weight, we need to get the max structural weight approved by the manufacturer. The company can then do whatever it wants to the weights.

Agreed. This person is missing the big picture. We need stronger unity.