Posted on 07/13/2022 10:21:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
[[How Covid Vaccine Mandates And Regulatory Red Tape Created A Critical Airline Pilot Shortage]]
Same way it created doctor and healthcare worker shortage, cop shortage, firefighter shortage, Dentist shortage etc etc etc Tremendous damage was done by these mandates
Bidet did that.
There goes Lott again, bringing facts to a discussion. Facts are racist. All issues can be reduced to whether you are a loving, caring, compassionate person, who believes in equity and social justice; or, whether you’re a part of the white, capitalistic, neo-Nazi patriarchy. Raising standards for pilots has no impact on the supply of pilots, just like disarming law-abiding citizens doesn’t embolden criminals, just like creating gobs of new money has no impact on inflation, and just like opening the border doesn’t invite a wave of illegal aliens.
Simple solution; use an age index of 120, i.e., if Captain is 60, Copilot cannot be over 60. If Captain is 50, Copilot can be 70, if Captain is 70, Copilot cannot be over 50. This would put thousands of pilots back in the Cockpit. Safety is not an issue and great experience is retained.
They should follow it up how Fed.gov killed the passenger rail industry with increased regulation and Fed.gov control.
Old Uncle Sugar must have one hell of a good job....He throws billions and trillions around like it was confetti.... /s
FYI
The pilot shortage has been building for decades. That’s the reason the mandatory retirement age was raised from 60 to 65 in 2007. The real problem is that it’s become way too expensive for the average young person to get a pilot’s license on his or her own. So far fewer people are learning to fly. When I got my license in the 70s, I was paying $22 an hour. $14 for the airplane and $8 for the instructor. And that was the wet rate (meaning fuel included). And I learned in a Citabria, which cost $1 an hour more than the usual Cessna 150. Today the wet rate plus an instructor can easily reach $165 to $200 an hour. Not to mention, today’s kids would rather play video games or protest some imagined grievance. So a lot fewer people in the pilot pool today.
The most urgent shortage is about to rear it’s ugly head: World Famine is very shortly to make it’s debut.
Plus, who wants to be a commercial pilot when that means you are the public face of “woke” airlines that spit in the face of their customers constantly?
The government is at the same time incompetent and evil according to his testimony. You aren’t going to like the solution to all of the problems!
An example of the shortages is durable goods manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade, and education and health services have a labor shortage—these industries have more unfilled job openings than unemployed workers with experience in their respective industry.
Even if every unemployed person with experience in the durable goods manufacturing industry were employed, the industry would only fill 65% of the vacant jobs. After losing roughly 1.4 million jobs at the onset of the pandemic. Since then, the industry has struggled to hire entry and skilled workers alike. So they can’t get anyone, now, at all.
Since before the pandemic, we have more than two million fewer Americans participating in the labor force today compared to February of 2020. And according to a assessment run by Monster.com the SHRM report indicated that health care, social assistance and manufacturing have the highest levels of recruiting difficulty.
And what the administration fails to see, is that their regulation has been contributory to the losses. Thanks to actions like pushing to defund the cops. A 2021 survey from the Police Executive Research Forum showed a 45% increase in retirements, and nearly 20% spike in resignations, over the previous year.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/police-exodus-causes-nationwide-officer-shortage/
Many other fields are down as we speak to include:
Nurses, doctors and specialists
Scientists and mathematicians
Skilled trades, like electricians, carpenters, machinists, mechanics , welders and plumbers
IT computer specialists
health, telecommunications and environmental technicians
Transportation, such as drivers
Construction and extraction workers in mining
counselors, therapists and social workers
And this is a short list.
https://www.monster.com/career-advice/article/shrm-industries-need-more-workers-1216
The jobs are there, they just aren’t worth money, benefits and home working desires, or have little future like the mining or law enforcement industries. And on a personal note, you may see the military on the list before too long as they will get to the point between shrinking retirement pay based upon inflation and by being undercut by congress, removing benefits, cutting out lifetime promises like health care, and leaving to go into a labor priced failure of the economy on jobs they can handle successfully due to lack of training. Their country they are trying to come back to ran away and hid.
Wy69
i think too a lot of folks are seeing people just really soak the system, seeing states reward thieves by not going after them anymore- etc- and it is discouraging them- because they work so hard while criminals don’t hardly work and yet get away with their crimes- stores are closing left and right because they can’t keep up with the thefts and danger to their employees-
[[And on a personal note, you may see the military on the list before too long as they will get to the point between shrinking retirement pay based upon inflation and by being undercut by congress, removing benefits, cutting out lifetime promises like health care, and leaving to go into a labor priced failure of the economy on jobs they can handle successfully due to lack of training. Their country they are trying to come back to ran away and hid.]]
Very true- Sad state of affairs- The country is in a bad bad place-
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When a stall warning went off in the cockpit, Captain Renslow raised the plane’s nose, which is the opposite of what pilots are trained to do. Renslow had failed five “check ride” proficiency tests conducted in cockpits or simulators.
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Wow. The most basic of incompetent, and in this case fatal, moves. Pushing the nose down to gain speed from a stall warning should be hammered in thru training to the point of being instinctive.
lick Lives wrote: “Wow. The most basic of incompetent, and in this case fatal, moves. Pushing the nose down to gain speed from a stall warning should be hammered in thru training to the point of being instinctive.”
I suspect the vast majority of non-pilots would know to push the nose down.
Here’s a great YouTube video from a current airline pilot, Mentour, that explains a lot of what is going on with the industry. Some of the shortage is going to be made up by US airlines hiring pilots from foreign airlines and retraining them up to their standards.
Several airlines are recruiting pilots from high school and training them in their own academy. They are also recruiting more women as airline pilots since they are often better at communication and team skills than men. Most of what today’s airline pilots do is manage and monitor flight director controlled systems. Being able to follow checklists everytime and communicate without getting one’s ego in the way is also a critical skill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dunXAGSOQwQ&ab_channel=MentourNow%21
Hmmm.....is one of the few requirements is just that they’re “vax”d?
All of these foreign pilots and high schoolers will have to be, just like the pilots who’ve quit/died/etc. have/had to be, right?
(And, no, I did not watch the vid, yet. Thanks for posting it, though.)
Although healthcare folks in general are 98% compliant altogether, my field isn’t. Many early retirements prior to the mandate, n I can’t leave my job to get a better one unless I comply with their mandate. Religious exemption.
Reading Gulag Archipelago right now. Frightening how much freedom we have lost.
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