Pilot Shortage
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Pilot Shortage
A Question for all those in IT.
Does anybody have the location of these reports that say that there is going to be a Pilot SHORTAGE, in the next several years. With hints that the airline industry is expanding, retirement of Captain and a large increase in regional jobs, can anybody substantiate this info. I have a meeting tomorrow with the Big Kahoona at the bank and I need to be able to fire from the hip and make every shot count as I am about to leave a well paid job. They are not happy about that.
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Does anybody have the location of these reports that say that there is going to be a Pilot SHORTAGE, in the next several years. With hints that the airline industry is expanding, retirement of Captain and a large increase in regional jobs, can anybody substantiate this info. I have a meeting tomorrow with the Big Kahoona at the bank and I need to be able to fire from the hip and make every shot count as I am about to leave a well paid job. They are not happy about that.
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yeah, come from fl. schools, if you want make money , open a fl. school.
please do nt borrow money from a bank, you will not find a good paid job as a pilot.
I hear this shortage of pilot since 1992, i m still waiting...it s ver hard, expensive...if you do nt have a rich family, do something else.I ve thousand of hours and i ve a real hard time to find a good paid job.
please do nt borrow money from a bank, you will not find a good paid job as a pilot.
I hear this shortage of pilot since 1992, i m still waiting...it s ver hard, expensive...if you do nt have a rich family, do something else.I ve thousand of hours and i ve a real hard time to find a good paid job.
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TDL,
All you need via your favourite site.
I think the suit will find this week's Economist respectable enough:
http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/For...ML/013884.html
You can try the link as well Ronnie - just move the mouse thingy until it's over the funny coloured words and click its buttons till something happens.
Regards from the Towers
Rob Lloyd
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[This message has been edited by PPRuNe Towers (edited 14 May 2001).]
All you need via your favourite site.
I think the suit will find this week's Economist respectable enough:
http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/For...ML/013884.html
You can try the link as well Ronnie - just move the mouse thingy until it's over the funny coloured words and click its buttons till something happens.
Regards from the Towers
Rob Lloyd
[email protected]
[This message has been edited by PPRuNe Towers (edited 14 May 2001).]
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For once though, he's on the right track is our Ron.
Flying schools ALWAYS sing songs of impending pilot shortages and lots of jobs for their graduates. Much like Ronchonner, I've been around the industry since the mid '90s, I'm still working hard instructing and waiting to crack the first proper airline type job, and I have yet to see the slightest indication of anything but a massive oversupply of pilots, at least at the first-job level. (I hasten to add that unlike Ronchonner, I'm not an obnoxious, dysfunctional personality loser ... but I digress).
Flight International has had several articles about this so-called pilot shortage in recent months, you could maybe search some of their back issues if you've got them to hand.
For what it's worth, I reckon it's total b*ll*cks - I'm firmly convinced that there will NEVER be a shortage of newly qualified self improvers looking for the first step on the ladder.
Flying schools ALWAYS sing songs of impending pilot shortages and lots of jobs for their graduates. Much like Ronchonner, I've been around the industry since the mid '90s, I'm still working hard instructing and waiting to crack the first proper airline type job, and I have yet to see the slightest indication of anything but a massive oversupply of pilots, at least at the first-job level. (I hasten to add that unlike Ronchonner, I'm not an obnoxious, dysfunctional personality loser ... but I digress).
Flight International has had several articles about this so-called pilot shortage in recent months, you could maybe search some of their back issues if you've got them to hand.
For what it's worth, I reckon it's total b*ll*cks - I'm firmly convinced that there will NEVER be a shortage of newly qualified self improvers looking for the first step on the ladder.
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As I said to you the other day, there is and always will be a shortage of experienced(heavy type) pilots but unless JAR have managed to kill off the lot of you by abolishing the self improver route altogether thre is unlkikley to be a shortage of sub 1000 hour pilots.
Unfortunatley there is now no other way to qualify than to borrow/have rich parents so go for it but dont fall into the trap of believing the schools or thinking that the odd guy who gets a shiny thing with 200 hrs is the norm.
Most wait years flying para planes or tugging gliders before they get anywhere and a significant percentage (30 or so percent at a guess) never get there and are left with a debt of huge proportions.
Borrow the cash if you can but its a hard pill to swallow getting nasty letters from the bank when your unemployed
As I said to you the other day, there is and always will be a shortage of experienced(heavy type) pilots but unless JAR have managed to kill off the lot of you by abolishing the self improver route altogether thre is unlkikley to be a shortage of sub 1000 hour pilots.
Unfortunatley there is now no other way to qualify than to borrow/have rich parents so go for it but dont fall into the trap of believing the schools or thinking that the odd guy who gets a shiny thing with 200 hrs is the norm.
Most wait years flying para planes or tugging gliders before they get anywhere and a significant percentage (30 or so percent at a guess) never get there and are left with a debt of huge proportions.
Borrow the cash if you can but its a hard pill to swallow getting nasty letters from the bank when your unemployed
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Rocho is correct..
This pilot shortage thing is a bit like
the IT shortage (my day job)
i.e. an unwillingness by employers to pay for training = SHORTAGE
The shortage is a shortage of airline
experienced pilots NOT GA pilots
There is an excess of supply over demand..
This pilot shortage thing is a bit like
the IT shortage (my day job)
i.e. an unwillingness by employers to pay for training = SHORTAGE
The shortage is a shortage of airline
experienced pilots NOT GA pilots
There is an excess of supply over demand..
