Start the pilot shortage lie again...

R580XD · Post by **R580XD** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 5:51 pm

Saw an article in the Winnipeg Sun yesterday... Winnipeg Flying Club trying to drum up business...

"With a generation of baby boomer pilots ready to retire - including an estimated 400 Air Canada pilots by 2007 - the job market will soon be flooded with opportunies. Somebody's got to fly all those planes"

All I can say is....

Dockjock · Post by **Dockjock** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 5:53 pm

Ahh statistics...

fatdumbandlazy · Post by **fatdumbandlazy** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 7:00 pm

All that means is that there will be 400 less pilots looking for work because AC will be tits up by then anyway.

Wilbur · Post by **Wilbur** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 8:08 pm

Wow, a little over a hundred jobs a year for three years. Sounds like a regular hiring boom to me. Why don't they make it sound even better; 3000 jobs by 2034.

cyyz · Post by **cyyz** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 10:24 pm

Without tits up scenarios

300 retirees

300 upgrades

300 WJ jumpers

300 WJ upgrades

300 Whatever Jumpers

300 whatever Jobs

300 new Flight Instructors

300 new students

A Boom I say.. A big boom..

ahramin · Post by **ahramin** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 12:49 am

Absolutely disgraceful. There are far more than 400 laid off and furloughed Air Canada pilots waiting for a chance to get back into the majors. But i am sure that little johnny with 250 hours is going to be hired as an airline pilot before those guys. This sunshine up the arsehole of telling students that they are going to be airline pilots when they graduate has to stop. It is causing problems for the industry.

cyyz · Post by **cyyz** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 1:53 am

ahramin wrote:sunshine up the arsehole of telling students that they are going to be airline pilots when they graduate has to stop. It is causing problems for the industry.

I know 3 web design, 2 interior design and 1 ad design graduates from IAOD. None of them are in their respective fields.

Think all "schools" tell you one thing and you end up in the same hole either way, desk job.

ahramin · Post by **ahramin** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 2:18 am

Funny, when i was in university we were all told we were going to be computer programmers and eventually software engineers. And of the dozen people i graduated with, half are computer programmers and the other half (excepting me) are software engineers.

But then again, these people chose to go to school in order to learn something purposive.

Perhaps this modern changing careers four times during the course your life trend is just another sign that the a.d.d. epidemic is well on its way.

cyyz · Post by **cyyz** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 3:55 am

It's been upgraded to "hadd."..

And of the dozen people i graduated with

12? 13(Bakers)?

A. We have about 1000+/- IT people graduating at each university/college a year. Do you honestly believe they are all working in the IT field??

the job market will soon be flooded with opportunies

B. Semantics, aren't these people told they'll have aviation related jobs, "opportuni(ti)es." They'll be ramp jocks.. Seems like the flight school is telling the truth, n'est pas? Market will be "flooded" with CPLers running the ramps and baggage.

securitas · Post by **securitas** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 8:37 am

73% of all statistics are made up on the spot

hz2p · Post by **hz2p** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 8:48 am

Ok, who's gonna stop by the WFC and chase them around with a rubber hose?

Slick Fork · Post by **Slick Fork** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 10:50 am

Wasn't it Homer Simpson who said "63.5 percent of all people know that you can use statistics to prove anything you want!"

ahramin · Post by **ahramin** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 12:52 pm

Yes yyz, i would imagine that out of one thousand graduates to any program, not all would stay in the field.

But how many WFC graduates are going to be airline pilots in 2007?

chewsta · Post by **chewsta** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 5:29 pm

Slick Fork, I believe the quote is

"Statistics can be used to prove anything. 85% of all people know that."

N2 · Post by N2 » Mon Jul 05, 2004 6:57 pm

Isn't the saying...bull$hit baffles brains?

Floats · Post by **Floats** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 6:59 am

securitas wrote:73% of all statistics are made up on the spot

43% of the population know that.

100% of Liberal Supporters are idiots, but only 8% of them realize it

J.P.WISER · Post by **J.P.WISER** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 8:56 am

securitas wrote:73% of all statistics are made up on the spot

How long did it take you to call everybody during thier supper to poll for this stat????

Lanky Pilot · Post by **Lanky Pilot** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 1:40 pm

Does this mean I'm not gonna be flying a 737 as soon as i finish my IFR??

corn-shoot · Post by **corn-shoot** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 9:45 am

Actually I've seen some really short pilots lately...maybe there really is a shortage!

ahramin · Post by **ahramin** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 1:26 pm

Oo. Hey i resemble that remark!

Where have you been?

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Go Guns · Post by **Go Guns** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 8:32 am