The article’s author asks the same question that most of us in the Aviation Industry have been asking since it became obvious that there is a tremendous shortage of commercial pilots facing us now and into the future at a time when new commercial pilots are needed the most.
“Where will we find all of that talent, and how are we going to train them?” said Sherry Carbary, vice president of Boeing Flight Services, a business unit of Commercial Aviation Services, Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
Noting that just 6 percent of the current pilot population are women, Carbary said only about 3.5 percent of female pilots hold airline transport pilot certificates, and only about 2.7 percent of maintenance technicians are women. She asked the pilots in the audience to raise their hands, and remarked, “Over half the room. These are the stats we have to have reflected in our numbers across the United States and the world, so we have a lot of work to do.”
“Tomorrow’s aviation workforce is going to be different than today’s,” she said. “They’re more worldly, more technologically savvy, open to change, and certainly more socially connected. They want information when they want it, where they want it, and how they want it.”
Attracting and training talented young people will be a challenge for the industry so that it can continue to be a vital contributor to economic growth, Carbary said.
ATP is at the forefront of efforts to solve the challenges that aspiring Commercial Pilots face once they decide to enter the Aviation and Airline Industries. ATP has not only found answers to the financing problems that aviation students began facing once the recent economic recession began, but ATP is still committed to providing the quality full-immersion flight training that has helped thousands of ATP graduates meet and exceed their career goals using cutting edge technology and equipment.
Don’t wait. If you have ever dreamed of flying for a living now is the time to train for success and start a career flying for an Airline, Corporate Flight Department or Freight Carrier with the Flight Training Professionals who have had the most successful graduates in the industry; ATP.
Attracting Enough Talented Pilots is Aviation's Challenge
Published Mar 19, 2012 on Pilot Jobs
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I recently read a very good article on AOPA Online’s Training and Safety Page that began like this: Over the next 20 years, the aviation industry will need more than 1 million pilots and aircraft technicians to fly and maintain the aircraft needed to support commercial air travel growth, a Boeing representative said March 10 at the International Women in Aviation conference in Dallas.
The article’s author asks the same question that most of us in the Aviation Industry have been asking since it became obvious that there is a tremendous shortage of commercial pilots facing us now and into the future at a time when new commercial pilots are needed the most.
“Where will we find all of that talent, and how are we going to train them?” said Sherry Carbary, vice president of Boeing Flight Services, a business unit of Commercial Aviation Services, Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
Noting that just 6 percent of the current pilot population are women, Carbary said only about 3.5 percent of female pilots hold airline transport pilot certificates, and only about 2.7 percent of maintenance technicians are women. She asked the pilots in the audience to raise their hands, and remarked, “Over half the room. These are the stats we have to have reflected in our numbers across the United States and the world, so we have a lot of work to do.”
“Tomorrow’s aviation workforce is going to be different than today’s,” she said. “They’re more worldly, more technologically savvy, open to change, and certainly more socially connected. They want information when they want it, where they want it, and how they want it.”
Attracting and training talented young people will be a challenge for the industry so that it can continue to be a vital contributor to economic growth, Carbary said.
ATP is at the forefront of efforts to solve the challenges that aspiring Commercial Pilots face once they decide to enter the Aviation and Airline Industries. ATP has not only found answers to the financing problems that aviation students began facing once the recent economic recession began, but ATP is still committed to providing the quality full-immersion flight training that has helped thousands of ATP graduates meet and exceed their career goals using cutting edge technology and equipment.
Don’t wait. If you have ever dreamed of flying for a living now is the time to train for success and start a career flying for an Airline, Corporate Flight Department or Freight Carrier with the Flight Training Professionals who have had the most successful graduates in the industry; ATP.
The article’s author asks the same question that most of us in the Aviation Industry have been asking since it became obvious that there is a tremendous shortage of commercial pilots facing us now and into the future at a time when new commercial pilots are needed the most.
“Where will we find all of that talent, and how are we going to train them?” said Sherry Carbary, vice president of Boeing Flight Services, a business unit of Commercial Aviation Services, Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
Noting that just 6 percent of the current pilot population are women, Carbary said only about 3.5 percent of female pilots hold airline transport pilot certificates, and only about 2.7 percent of maintenance technicians are women. She asked the pilots in the audience to raise their hands, and remarked, “Over half the room. These are the stats we have to have reflected in our numbers across the United States and the world, so we have a lot of work to do.”
“Tomorrow’s aviation workforce is going to be different than today’s,” she said. “They’re more worldly, more technologically savvy, open to change, and certainly more socially connected. They want information when they want it, where they want it, and how they want it.”
Attracting and training talented young people will be a challenge for the industry so that it can continue to be a vital contributor to economic growth, Carbary said.
ATP is at the forefront of efforts to solve the challenges that aspiring Commercial Pilots face once they decide to enter the Aviation and Airline Industries. ATP has not only found answers to the financing problems that aviation students began facing once the recent economic recession began, but ATP is still committed to providing the quality full-immersion flight training that has helped thousands of ATP graduates meet and exceed their career goals using cutting edge technology and equipment.
Don’t wait. If you have ever dreamed of flying for a living now is the time to train for success and start a career flying for an Airline, Corporate Flight Department or Freight Carrier with the Flight Training Professionals who have had the most successful graduates in the industry; ATP.
