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Commercial pilot shortage

46XiJCAB46XiJCAB Member Posts: 20,967
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It has been discussed here before but it seems to be getting critical with the number of pilots reaching mandatory retirement at 65y/o.

Congress is reviewing and there was a recommendation to up the retirement age to 67 y/o to relieve some of the pressure until new pilots can be trained.

Petey is dead set against raising the retirement age.

“The answer is not to keep the Baby Boomer generation in the cockpit indefinitely. The answer is to have as many as a good pilots ready to take their place, to have a stronger pipeline.”

This idiot acts like he’s talking about the hiring of city bus drivers.
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  • RaceBannonRaceBannon Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 106,047 Founders Club
    It's the low unemployment rate under Biden. Not vax mandates or anything like that

    Pete is a moron which is why he is being pimped for the democrat nomination. And he's GAY!
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  • 46XiJCAB46XiJCAB Member Posts: 20,967
    edited April 2023
    RaceBannon said:

    It's the low unemployment rate under Biden. Not vax mandates or anything like that

    Pete is a moron which is why he is being pimped for the democrat nomination. And he's GAY!

    Wait, Pete is GAY?

    Well that changes everything. His pushback against a common sense solution was necessary and well thought out. I tend to agree.

    We can’t continue to have veteran pilots stay on when there’s going to be plenty of inexperienced ones to hire.
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  • pawzpawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 20,989 Founders Club
    RaceBannon said:

    It's the low unemployment rate under Biden. Not vax mandates or anything like that

    Pete is a moron which is why he is being pimped for the democrat nomination. And he's GAY!

    Citation needed.


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  • SledogSledog Member Posts: 33,961 Standard Supporter
    Airlines in deep shit. Incoming pilots are often terrible. My friend since high school is an FAA designee and says the new incoming suck ass for the most part except for military guys. Woke standards are now being applied to pilots...
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  • 46XiJCAB46XiJCAB Member Posts: 20,967
    ASU and the University of N. Dakota both have aviation schools at the ASU Mesa Polytechnic Campus.

    ASU has an accelerated pilot training program where you graduate with 1000/hrs. Good time to get into flying if you have the necessary skill set.
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  • WestlinnDuckWestlinnDuck Member Posts: 15,391 Standard Supporter
    46XiJCAB said:

    ASU and the University of N. Dakota both have aviation schools at the ASU Mesa Polytechnic Campus.

    ASU has an accelerated pilot training program where you graduate with 1000/hrs. Good time to get into flying if you have the necessary skill set.

    If you are a white male, then what? Go tranny?
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  • BlueduckBlueduck Member Posts: 1,487
    edited April 2023
    pawz said:

    RaceBannon said:

    It's the low unemployment rate under Biden. Not vax mandates or anything like that

    Pete is a moron which is why he is being pimped for the democrat nomination. And he's GAY!

    Citation needed.


    Pete's not gay but his husband definitely is!......

    Im pretty sure anyway
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  • MelloDawgMelloDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 6,711 Swaye's Wigwam
    Sledog said:

    Airlines in deep shit. Incoming pilots are often terrible. My friend since high school is an FAA designee and says the new incoming suck ass for the most part except for military guys. Woke standards are now being applied to pilots...

    What are woke standards?
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  • trubluetrublue Member Posts: 3,042
    edited April 2023
    MelloDawg said:

    Sledog said:

    Airlines in deep shit. Incoming pilots are often terrible. My friend since high school is an FAA designee and says the new incoming suck ass for the most part except for military guys. Woke standards are now being applied to pilots...

    What are woke standards?
    Diversity, Equity, Inclusion are primary goals.

    Do you need more specific definitions, Horn Boy?

    Merit, best qualified - not so much.

    Hope this helps.

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  • georgiaduckgeorgiaduck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 2,040 Swaye's Wigwam
    A friend of mine is a Captain for a certain airline HQ'd in Atlanta- He texted me yesterday about new pilot going through the training program threw a fit because his preferred "non-binary" pronouns weren't listed in the documentation. I don't how many of you are aware of this, but one of the top qualities of a pilot is keeping their cool in adverse situations. Really hoping he doesn't show the same lack of constraint when Air Traffic Control mis-genders him, which I guarantee they will.
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  • PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 44,262 Standard Supporter





    Fuck the pilots. Make stewardesses great again.

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  • RaceBannonRaceBannon Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 106,047 Founders Club
    georgiaduck said:

    A friend of mine is a Captain for a certain airline HQ'd in Atlanta- He texted me yesterday about new pilot going through the training program threw a fit because his preferred "non-binary" pronouns weren't listed in the documentation. I don't how many of you are aware of this, but one of the top qualities of a pilot is keeping their cool in adverse situations. Really hoping he doesn't show the same lack of constraint when Air Traffic Control mis-genders him, which I guarantee they will.

    Not thrilled that mentally ill folks are pilots. Wait till one flies into a mountain on purpose
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  • 46XiJCAB46XiJCAB Member Posts: 20,967
    PurpleThrobber said:






    Fuck the pilots. Make stewardesses great again.

    Had a long delay in Houston during the storm of the century. Watched a large group of KLM attendants boarding a 747. Damn.

    They ain’t Alaska and that’s a good thing.
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  • BlueduckBlueduck Member Posts: 1,487
    edited April 2023
    PurpleThrobber said:






    Fuck the pilots. Make stewardesses great again.

    When I was 20, one of my first jobs when I moved to Seattle was groundskeeper and pool and spa operator for the Red Lion Hotel when it was on the corner of hywy 99 and s 188th across from the airport.

    We had all kinds of different stewardesses stay at the hotel but the Martin Air stewardesses would always stay at the Red Lion Hotel and would sunbathe topless on the pool deck in the mornings when nobody was out there.

    Of course, it was my job to make sure the chemicals were perfect and the pool and deck were spotless and all the flower beds were raked and the flowers were fed and watered every morning, so everything was perfect for our guests!

    Let's just say, I took my job very seriously. It was a great job for a young man back in the 80s
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  • Fire_Marshall_BillFire_Marshall_Bill Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 23,951 Founders Club
    georgiaduck said:

    A friend of mine is a Captain for a certain airline HQ'd in Atlanta- He texted me yesterday about new pilot going through the training program threw a fit because his preferred "non-binary" pronouns weren't listed in the documentation. I don't how many of you are aware of this, but one of the top qualities of a pilot is keeping their cool in adverse situations. Really hoping he doesn't show the same lack of constraint when Air Traffic Control mis-genders him, which I guarantee they will.

    Hopefully the mentally fragile ones get weeded out and all the woke platitudes are just there to appease the SJW screamers.
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  • WestlinnDuckWestlinnDuck Member Posts: 15,391 Standard Supporter
    PurpleThrobber said:






    Fuck the pilots. Make stewardesses great again.

    I was staying at a Houston Hotel that was the home hotel for Singapore Airlines and when a flight crew for one of the international jumbo jet flight crew checked in. No one was within decades of retirement age.


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