Here is a link to a NPR discussion.
http://thedianerehmshow.org/audio-player?nid=16894
NPR: U.S. Airlines And A Shortage Of Pilots
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Re: Shortage Of Pilots
It is amazing how often I have heard that there is a shortage of pilots. I have been hearing that since the mid 1980's. If this was true I should have been in the airlines years ago. As for the US airlines after June 2013 to fly with them you will need to have your ATP. This is due to the plane crash near Buffalo in 2009. It does look like a pilot shortage for the major airlines starting next June, 2013.
Re: NPR: U.S. Airlines And A Shortage Of Pilots
A shortage of cheap pilots (25k/yr to fly a fancy rj )
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Re: NPR: U.S. Airlines And A Shortage Of Pilots
We all always get inspired, but I believe what I've read before.
Having 250 hours and a lot of debt with no experience outside the flight school doesn't make you needed.
A type rating, on that specific aircraft, does. The experience to back it up also helps.
Want to see a change? When they can't get that 767 Captain's slot filled, it slowly trickles down, after months and years of single or small number vacancies. Then Air Canada has a slightly bigger hiring in its next term. Georgian, CMA, Bearskin, Wasaya, etc. follow, hiring that one extra guy, maybe two. That's a year difference.
The low end guys, working 206's on their first jobs, waiting to move up from the Class 3 instructor rating won't feel anything for at least a year, probably more, if at all. Forget the 250 hour guys.
Oh, and when the cycle goes back to a slow hiring cycle, it happens so fast, at all levels, you'll feel it instantly at the low end. That 3 month ramp wait just turned to 18. Same at the dock. That instructor job just got harder to find, same with any of those 702 first single engine jobs. It's a vicious industry in that regard.
I read this in another post, and I agree with the opinion. It all depends on what year you get in the industry. Some guys got their start in a boom time, things were easy. Others have survived the 2008 economy crash. Sure, everyone had to weather the storm, but it's easy sitting in a turbine twin than the piston twin, than the single than the ramp than nothing. (Or floats, agriculture, bush, or wherever you are in the industry... just generalizing)
Having 250 hours and a lot of debt with no experience outside the flight school doesn't make you needed.
A type rating, on that specific aircraft, does. The experience to back it up also helps.
Want to see a change? When they can't get that 767 Captain's slot filled, it slowly trickles down, after months and years of single or small number vacancies. Then Air Canada has a slightly bigger hiring in its next term. Georgian, CMA, Bearskin, Wasaya, etc. follow, hiring that one extra guy, maybe two. That's a year difference.
The low end guys, working 206's on their first jobs, waiting to move up from the Class 3 instructor rating won't feel anything for at least a year, probably more, if at all. Forget the 250 hour guys.
Oh, and when the cycle goes back to a slow hiring cycle, it happens so fast, at all levels, you'll feel it instantly at the low end. That 3 month ramp wait just turned to 18. Same at the dock. That instructor job just got harder to find, same with any of those 702 first single engine jobs. It's a vicious industry in that regard.
I read this in another post, and I agree with the opinion. It all depends on what year you get in the industry. Some guys got their start in a boom time, things were easy. Others have survived the 2008 economy crash. Sure, everyone had to weather the storm, but it's easy sitting in a turbine twin than the piston twin, than the single than the ramp than nothing. (Or floats, agriculture, bush, or wherever you are in the industry... just generalizing)
