Worsening Pilot Shortage
06-12-2014 | 10:37 AM
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We will get a european model where 300 hour "crew qualified" pilots are hired from zero up. We will probably see cabotage as well. Time to go to plumbing school because it will never get better.
06-12-2014 | 03:47 PM
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Being an airline pilot is a job, not a ride at Disneyland. The enchantment will wear off. If you are who you say you are and have the background you claim to have then hopefully you have hobbies/jobs on the side that are more challenging. The smart people in this career are not mentally challenged enough to be satisfied just flying. People who go to high level colleges are usually not stimulated enough to find satisfaction in mundane repetitive thankless jobs.
Let me tell you, when you've just written the 19th iteration of a :30 TV spot and find yourself on a 5-hour conference call with the client, the main topic of which is "Should we say it's the cleanest, driest baby wipe or the driest, cleanest baby wipe?" (True story, including the length of the call and the number of revisions)...well, you do that for 18 years and then let's talk about mundane, repetitive jobs....
(And yes, perhaps the word 'enchantment' is too strong. But I just have a serious weakness for anything that burns Jet-A. Sad, I know, but there you have it.)
06-12-2014 | 03:55 PM
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Cabotage means foreign airlines.they need pilots.the US has THE MOST excess pilots of any county....if a foreign airline is going to replace a us airline they will need us pilots, as the overseas shortage is much, much worse than the us shortage.
06-12-2014 | 04:03 PM
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Until you've seen furloughed major guys flying night checks, 10 approaches a night thankful for the job, you have no idea how good RJ flying is. It's heaven compared to 1975, you're in a jet, for heaven's sake, not a clapped out Aztec C.
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Until you've seen furloughed major guys flying night checks, 10 approaches a night thankful for the job, you have no idea how good RJ flying is. It's heaven compared to 1975, you're in a jet, for heaven's sake, not a clapped out Aztec C.
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06-12-2014 | 04:11 PM
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Scope almost doesn't matter anymore, because there will not be new pilots for three regionals to fly any more planes. Cabotage well work, if the foreign airlines hire US pilots. The majors will have severe pilot hiring problems, unless they change the pilot training system.
06-12-2014 | 04:20 PM
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All of the biz jet openings require an applicant to have the type and some time in it. I'll call it a shortage when they'll accept a non typed individual and put him through the school with no contract afterwards until then see my post above about a carrier looking for dual qual'd and current and still nothing.
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06-12-2014 | 05:35 PM
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I am not referring to those of us who allready fly for the airlines, but rather to those of us who have our ratings, but haven't made the move yet.
There are so damn many CFI type people out there who have a reluctance to move ahead with the regionals. I'm thinking that if the regionals move towards this ab initio type training, then people like me who are just waiting for our finances to be in order before applying, will be left out.
All new pilots hired will have to come from a specific program, or so it may seem.
06-12-2014 | 05:38 PM
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Four approaches a night for me: 2 in Detroit City and 2 in CVG. In the MU2. Single pilot. All at night. Four nights a week. Going to the RJ was wonderful (circa 2000).
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