Airline Pilot Demand
12-16-2014 | 03:35 PM
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Obviously this depends on where you work. Mesa is washing out 40-50%. Other airlines have 95% pass rates. One hires any warm body over the phone, the other attracts more qualified applicants. Hmmm.
12-16-2014 | 03:54 PM
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Hey, I guess you don't mind the FAA implementing the MPL framework to create yet a 3rd class of pilots?
12-16-2014 | 04:11 PM
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What is so different in the quality of the hours people are getting today?
12-16-2014 | 04:16 PM
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Why are today's 1500+ hour new hires having any trouble at all in training? I thought the 1500 hours was supposed to deliver a more competent pilot to the front door of the airlines, wasn't that the intent? I was hired at 1300 with 700 dual given, not really all that much below today's mins. I am not super-pilot, but never required any additional training.
What is so different in the quality of the hours people are getting today?
What is so different in the quality of the hours people are getting today?
12-16-2014 | 04:18 PM
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Why are today's 1500+ hour new hires having any trouble at all in training? I thought the 1500 hours was supposed to deliver a more competent pilot to the front door of the airlines, wasn't that the intent? I was hired at 1300 with 700 dual given, not really all that much below today's mins. I am not super-pilot, but never required any additional training.
What is so different in the quality of the hours people are getting today?
What is so different in the quality of the hours people are getting today?
12-16-2014 | 04:18 PM
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Why are today's 1500+ hour new hires having any trouble at all in training? I thought the 1500 hours was supposed to deliver a more competent pilot to the front door of the airlines, wasn't that the intent? I was hired at 1300 with 700 dual given. Never required any additional training.
What is so different in the quality of the hours people are getting today?
What is so different in the quality of the hours people are getting today?
After 1500 hours in a C172, you are really not much of a better pilot than you were after 500 hours. Many pilots do not have any real world experience, and instructed to get all of their time. No turbine experience, no real cross country experience, no experience in icing/convective weather, no experience in complex airspaces (DC, NYC, LAX).
12-16-2014 | 04:28 PM
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Let's talk about something else that's happening.
A friend who was a CFI at a big pilot mill school that flys a bunch of Seminoles and turns out garbage pilots told me that a group of his instructors used to just log flights (night, multi, and x/c) that other instructors were flying just because they hated the job that much and "seniority is everything", they "were ready to fly jetz".
Hmm, wonder why people are having issues?
A friend who was a CFI at a big pilot mill school that flys a bunch of Seminoles and turns out garbage pilots told me that a group of his instructors used to just log flights (night, multi, and x/c) that other instructors were flying just because they hated the job that much and "seniority is everything", they "were ready to fly jetz".
Hmm, wonder why people are having issues?
12-16-2014 | 04:30 PM
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Let's talk about something else that's happening.
A friend who was a CFI at a big pilot mill school that flys a bunch of Seminoles and turns out garbage pilots told me that a group of his instructors used to just log flights (night, multi, and x/c) that other instructors were flying just because they hated the job that much and "seniority is everything", they "were ready to fly jetz".
A friend who was a CFI at a big pilot mill school that flys a bunch of Seminoles and turns out garbage pilots told me that a group of his instructors used to just log flights (night, multi, and x/c) that other instructors were flying just because they hated the job that much and "seniority is everything", they "were ready to fly jetz".
12-16-2014 | 04:41 PM
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Let's talk about something else that's happening.
A friend who was a CFI at a big pilot mill school that flys a bunch of Seminoles and turns out garbage pilots told me that a group of his instructors used to just log flights (night, multi, and x/c) that other instructors were flying just because they hated the job that much and "seniority is everything", they "were ready to fly jetz".
Hmm, wonder why people are having issues?
A friend who was a CFI at a big pilot mill school that flys a bunch of Seminoles and turns out garbage pilots told me that a group of his instructors used to just log flights (night, multi, and x/c) that other instructors were flying just because they hated the job that much and "seniority is everything", they "were ready to fly jetz".
Hmm, wonder why people are having issues?
But what good is 1000 hours of right-seating and fair weather flying anyway?
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