Posted on 03/08/2024 4:03:55 PM PST by libh8er
The Minority Pilot Advancement Foundation launched today during Black History Month with the goal of bringing 600 minority and women pilots per year into the aviation industry. By educating, inspiring and funding minority teens in aviation careers, the Foundation is poised to drive generational change by breaking the cycle of lack of advancement opportunities, and to help alleviate the significant pilot shortage in the United States.
Because of that shortage, major airline companies have dropped the need for a four-year degree as a prerequisite for employment as an airline pilot, opening opportunities to youth who may not realize that a career in aviation is now a possibility. Given that less than 3 percent of all airline pilots are Black, and less that 1 percent are women, the need for diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) programs like the Minority Pilot Advancement Foundation has never been greater.
“By educating underrepresented middle school and high school kids about our program to assist them in becoming a pilot and that all they need to do so is a high school diploma, and read and write English, the international language of aviation, we hope to inspire them to stay in high school and do well, knowing that their dream for a better life is waiting for them through the Foundation,” said Ron Kelly, founder of the Minority Pilot Advancement Foundation. “We are opening a huge door that leads right to a career in the sky where they can earn over $200,000 a year and change the trajectory of their whole family.”
In addition to launching the Foundation, Mr. Kelly, who is the CEO the Las Vegas Flight Academy (LVFA), will be awarded with the distinguished Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award given by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in recognition of 50 years of safe flying.
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What they’re not saying is how they will somehow accommodate under qualified, low IQ people in order to meet a hiring quota. It’s what stupid liberals do.
never flying again. no dei dentists or heart doctors either.
The Great Replacement, the preview of the coming genocide, moves forward.
Fly the deadly skies. Of course the ruling class and elites won’t be onboard.
Sounds racist and sexist.
The only way to hire more is to lower the standards.
There aren’t enough qualified “dei” people.
If this plan has the same effect it had on our courts, good luck.
Well, the will soon be needing some for the 737s.
It is.
Outcome vs. opportunity.
Today we use the end to rationalize the means.
Consistency (almost always related to the truth and fairness) is no longer important.
I am not flying anymore. Between this and parts falling off of aircraft is warning enough.
YES-—CAN YOU JUST SEE A FANI WILLIS AT THE COCKPIT OF A 747 WITH 300 +++ on board???
“youth”
There’s that word again.
Just this week, we learned that getting girls into STEM education failed and getting blacks outdoors failed.
So why will this work?
American airline pilots have traditionally come from the Air Force and Navy. Now they’re gonna come from Martin Luther King Jr Pilot School.
What a disgrace. We built a civilization on merit and it is being destroyed by DEI.
Bookmark
This will not end well. Hundreds will DEI.
And the pilot would be Willis.
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