Don't hold your breath for a pilot shortage

[bri5150]

but you can bet sometime between now and 20121 there will be a pilot shortage, Luke Skywalker benefited from one

Luke Skywalker lived in the past. What is the first thing every Star Wars movie says?

 

[bizicmo]

Luke Skywalker lived in the past. What is the first thing every Star Wars movie says?

Possibly. Yes the storyteller talks about luke as, "A long time ago in a galaxy far far away..." but it doesn't give the storytellers time and location in reference to the viewers. For us, the viewer, luke could be just 5000 years in the future with the storyteller telling this story 20,000 years in the future.

 

[bri5150]

Possibly. Yes the storyteller talks about luke as, "A long time ago in a galaxy far far away..." but it doesn't give the storytellers time and location in reference to the viewers. For us, the viewer, luke could be just 5000 years in the future with the storyteller telling this story 20,000 years in the future.

No comment.

 

[pilotyip]

Possibly. Yes the storyteller talks about luke as, "A long time ago in a galaxy far far away..." but it doesn't give the storytellers time and location in reference to the viewers. For us, the viewer, luke could be just 5000 years in the future with the storyteller telling this story 20,000 years in the future.

If it is in the past it is history, if it is in the future it is a story. Luke was history from the year 30000

 

[bizicmo]

If it is in the past it is history, if it is in the future it is a story. Luke was history from the year 30000

Its only history if it actually happened. A story can be based in the past.

 

[bizicmo]

No comment.

We just created a 20,000 year timeline for a pilot shortage, don't think its unreasonable to stretch the reality of Star Wars.

 

[Rerouted]

I see things changing down at the bottom of the food chain. I bailed out of the regionals 6 years ago because I was hardly making enough to survive. I manage a flight school now and went from getting 50 cfi resumes every time I placed an ad to getting 7 if I'm lucky....and the quality of those applicants is marginal at best. Everyone I talk to is having the same problem. A sign of things to come further up the food chain? Time will tell, but I can tell you new starts are down.....way...way down. I'd love to fly 121 again...but not for anything close to the pitiful money I was making, and I'm not alone. There are plenty of us on the sidelines, but without some economic incentive, what's the point of returning? Interesting times ahead.

RR

 

[Amish RakeFight]

Amen Brother... the regionals are just not worth the headache. When I was a younger guy, I thought much differently, but these days money is really all that matters... and freedom from what it takes to make it.

 

[rod farva]

I see things changing down at the bottom of the food chain. I bailed out of the regionals 6 years ago because I was hardly making enough to survive. I manage a flight school now and went from getting 50 cfi resumes every time I placed an ad to getting 7 if I'm lucky....and the quality of those applicants is marginal at best. Everyone I talk to is having the same problem. A sign of things to come further up the food chain? Time will tell, but I can tell you new starts are down.....way...way down. I'd love to fly 121 again...but not for anything close to the pitiful money I was making, and I'm not alone. There are plenty of us on the sidelines, but without some economic incentive, what's the point of returning? Interesting times ahead.

RR

That's because they can fog a mirror and walk into an RJ rather than bounce around in a 152.

 

[pilotyip]

I see things changing down at the bottom of the food chain. I bailed out of the regionals 6 years ago because I was hardly making enough to survive. I manage a flight school now and went from getting 50 cfi resumes every time I placed an ad to getting 7 if I'm lucky....and the quality of those applicants is marginal at best. Everyone I talk to is having the same problem. A sign of things to come further up the food chain? Time will tell, but I can tell you new starts are down.....way...way down. I'd love to fly 121 again...but not for anything close to the pitiful money I was making, and I'm not alone. There are plenty of us on the sidelines, but without some economic incentive, what's the point of returning? Interesting times ahead.

RR

This guy gets it, everyone on the lower end of the hirnig chain is having trouble filling classes. They keep redefining competive minimums toward the fogged mirror