More Pilots Like This on the Horizon

GaryS said:
Many other nations have much lower standards for pilots than the US. The better training is why US based pilots can fly out of problems that cause foreign, especially Third World planes to crash.

A big part of the shortage here seems to be related to layoffs and firings related to pilots not wanting to take the COVID vaccine.
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Mexico any one? This link may give you a taste of what goes on with ICAO, International Civil Aviation Organization. as it pertains to other counties.

Mexico Fails Latest Technical Review & FAA Keeps The Country In Category 2

I never operated under Part 121 (AR 95-1/Part 91) and the age requirements are very different. OK with me. I retired at 59.

BTW, Army flight school education requirements for WOCs when I signed up (1968) was a high school diploma. We called it High School to Flight School and it worked very well. Some of the major's academies know this.
 
There is such a thing as, "Natural flying ability." You can train (almost) anyone with a degree and a moderate IQ how to be a technician and to operate complex machinery eg; commercial jets, but that does not make them a professional, nor the person I would want to ride behind.
High school to flight school? That's a professional.
 
Old 44 Guy said:
Last flight I was on was 1999. I'm tired of being treated like cattle. I can drive where I want to go & be more comfortable. No more flying for this guy.
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I absolutely hate flying also. I am working on convincing my wife to try a passenger train next time we go to the East Coast. Lot longer of course but the comfort and perks seem worth it.
 
MDF4 said:
There is such a thing as, "Natural flying ability." You can train (almost) anyone with a degree and a moderate IQ how to be a technician and to operate complex machinery eg; commercial jets, but that does not make them a professional, nor the person I would want to ride behind.
High school to flight school? That's a professional.
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I well remember the first time my IP picked that TH-55 up to a hover. I was hooked immediately.
 
Retired W4 said:
Mexico any one? This link may give you a taste of what goes on with ICAO, International Civil Aviation Organization. as it pertains to other counties.

Mexico Fails Latest Technical Review & FAA Keeps The Country In Category 2

I never operated under Part 121 (AR 95-1/Part 91) and the age requirements are very different. OK with me. I retired at 59.

BTW, Army flight school education requirements for WOCs when I signed up (1968) was a high school diploma. We called it High School to Flight School and it worked very well. Some of the major's academies know this.
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Your High School diploma from 54 years ago is probably worth a BS Degree from most colleges today.
 
"Robots anyone"
The flight had just become airborne and over the P,A. came the captains voice, "Welcome aboard everyone, this is a prerecorded announcement, welcome aboard the world's first fully automated flight. There are no flight crew, everything is automatic. Sit back and relax, and remember, nothing can go wrong, nothing can go wrong, nothing can go wrong..."
 
Beemerguy53 said:
Air&Space Smithsonian had an article on this subject a few years ago. The technology to build a pilotless airliner already exists...but most passengers don't want to fly in one.
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Thanks to two aeronautical degrees I still get the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University alumni magazine.

I read about all sorts of crazy stuff in there that I'll never try.

Okay, if you don't want pilotless jets, how 'bout drones controlled by some smart 12-year-old like a computer game?
 
not a problem if you do not climb into aluminum germ tubes.
just say not to real-id.
 
two-bit cowboy said:
Thanks to two aeronautical degrees I still get the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University alumni magazine.

I read about all sorts of crazy stuff in there that I'll never try.

Okay, if you don't want pilotless jets, how 'bout drones controlled by some smart 12-year-old like a computer game?
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ERAU Alumnus?
 
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