Future pilot shortage...

[cynic]

Have you flown single pilot 135 in crap weather? It's not all that easy.

Actually.... yes! In a turbo seneca. And you are correct... it is more challenging than many other types of flying.

That said.. I stand by my statement that any tard with a credit card can get a commercial license and a job at a regional airline and if you want to make more money you'll need to learn to do something that takes more effort to get into.

Maybe we should make it harder to be a pilot... maybe unions should have more power and pilots should make more... maybe if a frog had wings....

I'm not saying what should be. I'm just pointing out what is the case.

 

[bri5150]

That said.. I stand by my statement that any tard with a credit card can get a commercial license and a job at a regional airline and if you want to make more money you'll need to learn to do something that takes more effort to get into.

That is absolutely wrong. I don't think it takes a rocket scientist to be a pilot, but it does take SOME spacial reasoning, hand eye coordination, physics knowledge, and communication skills. You do drive a car, right? Do you think everyone that is driving around you could fly an airplane? I bet about 50% of 20-40 year olds could have a chance at passing a commercial checkride. The rest of the population is even lower.

 

[wt219200]

Actually.... yes! In a turbo seneca. And you are correct... it is more challenging than many other types of flying.

That said.. I stand by my statement that any tard with a credit card can get a commercial license and a job at a regional airline and if you want to make more money you'll need to learn to do something that takes more effort to get into.

Maybe we should make it harder to be a pilot... maybe unions should have more power and pilots should make more... maybe if a frog had wings....

I'm not saying what should be. I'm just pointing out what is the case.

I don't disagree with you about making it harder to become a pilot. It should be.

You have ~1500 hours so only 300 hours of that could be 135 single pilot ops. I doubt you've seen the types of weather that someone that does it for a living has.

 

[Jetjockey]

Actually.... yes! In a turbo seneca. And you are correct... it is more challenging than many other types of flying.

That said.. I stand by my statement that any tard with a credit card can get a commercial license and a job at a regional airline and if you want to make more money you'll need to learn to do something that takes more effort to get into.

Maybe we should make it harder to be a pilot... maybe unions should have more power and pilots should make more... maybe if a frog had wings....

I'm not saying what should be. I'm just pointing out what is the case.

Comeback when you have flown something bigger than general aviation aircraft.

 

[paid4training]

And a bigger airplane is harder to fly? I disagree, compared to GA aircraft the automation and warning systems that the modern crew fly today is leap years ahead of GA pilots who have to try and find that little speck in the sky that's traffic coming towards them. Ever have a back fire or panel outage while at nite in a single engine aircraft? After the blood returns to your brain from your toes u first try to remember if you are paid up on your life insurance and then work the problem!!! I've flown with a c cell flashlight held between my ear and shoulder once or twice(eventually bought a headlamp) for 2 hrs flying back home from a nite flight?

 

[paid4training]

Oh yea, and I disagree with the terd statement!!!!!

 

[pilotyip]

Comeback when you have flown something bigger than general aviation aircraft.

big secret, jets are the easiest airplanes to fly, one lever, no shortage of power, no p-factor, someone else to do all the hard stuff like talking on the radio, and the bigger the better.

 

[cynic]

That is absolutely wrong. I don't think it takes a rocket scientist to be a pilot, but it does take SOME spacial reasoning, hand eye coordination, physics knowledge, and communication skills.

First off.... single pilot IFR in a twin piston turbo with no autopilot is WAY more difficult than flying around in an RJ or a citation. you guys are nuts!

Yes. It does take some coordination. So I'll amend my assertion and say '*almost* any bar tard with a credit card can get a commercial pilot's license and a job at a regional airline'

The free market has set my salary at close to 100K a year with 10 weeks of leave. That's because what I do is REALLY hard and not many people can do it.

Flying is more difficult than say... attending to a parking lot. But it is insufficiently hard to require decent pay in the free market.

Just is what it is....

 

[pilotyip]

Anyone with a certain level of skill and desire can learn to fly an airplane. It is the passion for the flying that makes it a great job, Fly because you like to

 

[waka]

That is absolutely wrong. I don't think it takes a rocket scientist to be a pilot, but it does take SOME spacial reasoning, hand eye coordination, physics knowledge, and communication skills. You do drive a car, right? Do you think everyone that is driving around you could fly an airplane? I bet about 50% of 20-40 year olds could have a chance at passing a commercial checkride. The rest of the population is even lower.

No. I agree with Cynic. I think that you're giving pilots too much credit. Sure, much of your list is true, but just not even close to the extent that you're suggesting. Only 50%? of 20 to 40 year olds can pass a checkride? It's way more than that. In my instructing days, I signed off many commercial candidates and didn't have one failure.....and it was under pt 61 at a mom and pop FBO.

Given the way our "knowledge" tests are designed, study is based more on passing the test versus actual application of knowledge. Heck, just look at all of the so-called study guides....just questions, answers and brief explanations of answers.

As for flight training, people can train to proficiency as long as they have money......lather, rinse, repeat and most will eventually learn to fly well enough to pass a checkride. As for the oral, instructors tend to design their prepping of the student for the oral part of the checkride to the specific examiner.

Upon obtaining a Private, Commercial, CFI, etc., a pilot doesn't know diddly squat. That's why these certificates are considered to be "licenses to learn."

It just isn't that difficult to obtain one's certificates.