Looming Pilot Shortage

[pilotyip]

There was pilot shortage one year ago, that is why a 500 CFI, with 10 MEL hired one year ago is now flying as a DC-9 F/O under part 121. The more experienced pilots would not consider working at YIP.

 

[airdog]

There was pilot shortage one year ago, that is why a 500 CFI, with 10 MEL hired one year ago is now flying as a DC-9 F/O under part 121. The more experienced pilots would not consider working at YIP.

Amen, at a minimum, a pilot shortage only lasts as long as it takes to train a 300 hour pilots....

 

[avbug]

There was a hiring boom. There has never been a pilot shortage.

 

[Denizen]

There was pilot shortage one year ago, that is why a 500 CFI, with 10 MEL hired one year ago is now flying as a DC-9 F/O under part 121. The more experienced pilots would not consider working at YIP.

HOw is the shortage working out now?

 

[Thedude]

There was a hiring boom. There has never been a pilot shortage.

How quickly did that boom turn into a bust

 

[avbug]

It always does. Every five years, same cycle. Top to bottom, five years on a high, five years we hit a low. This is the low, and it's been expected.

There was never a shortage. Perhaps it's clear to everybody now.

 

[pilotyip]

Was to!

Was to, 8 months there ago was a shortage of experienced pilots, that is why I was hiring 500 hour CFI's.

 

[imacdog]

No shortage of experienced pilots, just experienced pilots willing to work for crap wages and working conditions.

 

[Lear Wanna Be]

Give YIP a break, he was saying three years ago that it was coming and he was right on. When flight schools were paying $50K a year and requiring contracts, because they can't keep people...there was definitely a shortage. What nobody could foresee was that the price of fuel was going to more than double in less than 2 years. If it isn't obvious, oil relates to everything in our economy. Just ask construction workers how much PVC they are using these days compared to years past. PVC=plastic=Oil=very expensive. Then you throw an election year on top of it all and well, we have a slight "correction in the market" as the experts like to call it.

 

[Junkflyer]

I guess the pilot shortage must have happened when I blinked because I never did see it.