Pilot Jobs
There are actually quite a few airline pilot jobs in the market today. I can't tell you the numbers but based on what I hear and see on the internet the regionals are hiring. Many regional airlines have about 15 to 20 pilots leaving a month. The interesting thing is that not all are leaving to other airlines. They are leaving the airline industry all together.
So who is left to replace the experienced pilots that are leaving? How about the inexperienced pilots!
How does that make you feel? Yes the average flight time for new hire pilots at the regional airlines has really decreased. Approximately five years ago many new hire pilots at the regionals would have a couple of thousand hours, turbine corporate time, freight time, or other airline time.
Now many of the new hire pilots have 400 to 1000 total time and have gone through a university or fast track program to get preferential hiring at a regional airline. Sure many of these pilots can do the job but many lack the experience and confidence required to operate a very safe operation.
Most of these new hire pilots don't even have their Flight Instructor Certificates. When a new pilot fight instructs they learn so many valuable skills but these new pilots feel flight instructing is a waste of time. When a pilot flight instructs they learn what it is really like to be pilot in command (PIC).
When you have to take a person up that has no idea about flying and you have to keep it safe while teaching them to fly, that is PIC time. You really learn what it is like to make decisions as a pilot. When a pilot doesn't flight instruct, I think they are missing out on valuable skills. The first time a new hire pilot who doesn't fly freight or flight instruct learns what it is like to be a true PIC is sometimes in a regional jet.
It appears there are many fast track programs starting up to take advantage of the financial benefit of new naive pilots looking for the so called dream job. These fast track programs don't care about quality, they want to get the pilot in so they can take their money.
So who is left to replace the experienced pilots that are leaving? How about the inexperienced pilots!
How does that make you feel? Yes the average flight time for new hire pilots at the regional airlines has really decreased. Approximately five years ago many new hire pilots at the regionals would have a couple of thousand hours, turbine corporate time, freight time, or other airline time.
Now many of the new hire pilots have 400 to 1000 total time and have gone through a university or fast track program to get preferential hiring at a regional airline. Sure many of these pilots can do the job but many lack the experience and confidence required to operate a very safe operation.
Most of these new hire pilots don't even have their Flight Instructor Certificates. When a new pilot fight instructs they learn so many valuable skills but these new pilots feel flight instructing is a waste of time. When a pilot flight instructs they learn what it is really like to be pilot in command (PIC).
When you have to take a person up that has no idea about flying and you have to keep it safe while teaching them to fly, that is PIC time. You really learn what it is like to make decisions as a pilot. When a pilot doesn't flight instruct, I think they are missing out on valuable skills. The first time a new hire pilot who doesn't fly freight or flight instruct learns what it is like to be a true PIC is sometimes in a regional jet.
It appears there are many fast track programs starting up to take advantage of the financial benefit of new naive pilots looking for the so called dream job. These fast track programs don't care about quality, they want to get the pilot in so they can take their money.
posted by Jet Airline Pilot at 6:53 PM
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