Getting to a Regional

[KingAirKiddo]

I agree with Bobby...definitely start now and do not work on the assumption that mins will drop in a few years. With the industry so stagnant these days, there will be a lot of qualified applicants already working in the industry who will be moving up the ladder as opportunities present themselves.

Best of luck...

 

[de727ups]

flying club

I used to work for the FAA at LAX. When they moved the TRACON to Miramar, that took a lot of controllers away but you still have quite a few living around LAX. Also, the FAA R.O. is in Hawthorne. What I'm trying to say is...you'd have a nice base of folks with a good income to recruit students from in your immediate area. All the military flying clubs I've seen would allow FAA employees to join. It would be cool if you could get a military flying club started in your around LAX.

 

[JJJ]

Keep in mind that the airlines will lose about 65% of active pilots in the next 5 years due to mandatory retirement at age 60

I don't know if I would believe this. It sounds like something Kit Darby would say.

I'm not sure where they got those numbers, but I would like to see them.

Take a major airline with 10,000 pilots. 65% over the next 5 years would be 6500 pilots, or 1300 pilots per year.

 

[Pilot Doc]

Keep in mind that the airlines will lose about 65% of active pilots in the next 5 years due to mandatory retirement at age 60

If that is true, then 50% of pilots are presumably age 57-59 (roughly.) Assuming the soon-to-retire pilots were not disproportionartely hired late in life, they are all quite senior, and are all captains. Therefore, the other 50% of pilots under age 57ish are all still FO's - conceivably with 20+ years of seniority.


Seems pretty unlikely.

 

[bobbysamd]

Pilot age

Keep in mind that the airlines will lose about 65% of active pilots in the next 5 years due to mandatory retirement at age 60.

If that is true, then 50% of pilots are presumably age 57-59 (roughly.) Assuming the soon-to-retire pilots were not disproportionartely hired late in life, they are all quite senior, and are all captains. Therefore, the other 50% of pilots under age 57ish are all still FO's - conceivably with 20+ years of seniority.

Seems pretty unlikely.

It is not likely at all. The 65% pilot retirement figure together with pilot shortage predictions is classic Kit Darby.

Let's assume that the prediction is accurate. There are plenty of well-qualified pilots waiting in the wings poised to glomb onto those jobs - if they're filled at all. No one has considered that a pilot job shortage could outstrip the pilot shortage.