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Minority Pilot Advancement Foundation Launches, Vows to Bring 600 Minority & Women Pilots into Aviation Industry Annually
Business Insider ^ | 2.29.2024

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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To: ridesthemiles

Oops. I had associated that name with the guy she had on
her staff. I meant he would be the other person in the
cockpit.


21 posted on 03/08/2024 4:23:26 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: libh8er

Ahhhh. The religion of proportional representation. The breakdown of categories and jobs applicable depend upon the rulers’ whim. Are Jews and/or Asians white depends on the position and whim of the rulers. Application to engineers and/or elementary school teachers also depends on the rulers’ whim.

Data may be collected but only displayed if it supports the desired outcome. Anything else would-be disinformation.


22 posted on 03/08/2024 4:23:40 PM PST by alternatives?
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To: libh8er

Oh goody.


23 posted on 03/08/2024 4:23:50 PM PST by Luke21
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To: libh8er

Another reason not to fly.


24 posted on 03/08/2024 4:25:58 PM PST by lucky american (Progressives are attacking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

No more Tuskeegee Airman. They were the real deal. Anybody who could fly P 51’s is ok by me.


25 posted on 03/08/2024 4:31:17 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: libh8er

26 posted on 03/08/2024 4:33:54 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: libh8er

What could possibly go wrong? If you’ve been putting that once-in-a-lifetime trip off, better hop on that plane now. You’re not going to want to do it in the future.


27 posted on 03/08/2024 4:34:07 PM PST by liberalh8ter ( Ephesians 6:10 - 18)
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To: LouAvul

Do they at least know how to read and write?


28 posted on 03/08/2024 4:35:07 PM PST by AZJeep
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To: libh8er

I will avoid flying at all costs.


29 posted on 03/08/2024 4:35:10 PM PST by webheart
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To: libh8er

Hope they award them DIE Pilot patches to warn potential fliers.


30 posted on 03/08/2024 4:35:38 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (We used to be a Republic, we are now a Fascist Klepto-Thugocracy.)
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To: libh8er

They’d be far more useful to everyone by starting a Minority Swimmers Advancement group.


31 posted on 03/08/2024 4:36:15 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: libh8er

Ah who cares pass them anyway and lets get them flying ,D’oh


32 posted on 03/08/2024 4:36:32 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: Spok

Haven’t flown since 2001 and I’m retired Air Force.


33 posted on 03/08/2024 4:36:37 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Chode

Cruel....but funny.


34 posted on 03/08/2024 4:38:38 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: libh8er
“the need for diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) programs like the Minority Pilot Advancement Foundation has never been greater”

What need?

There's no shortage of pilots. Never has been. Every kid who ever saw Top Gun wants to be a pilot. And unless you're a senior captain with a Big Three line, the pay is a joke. That's the way markets work: high supply, low wage.

As for “proportional representation”, where does that stop? Black males are maybe a bit more then 6% of the population, does anyone think they'll be happy when that precious threshold is reached? Nope.

If you're going to a) give away money for flight school and b) discriminate against White men, then the hiring can be pretty much 100% non-White for the foreseeable future.

The college degree/military background that used to predominate was just screening: pilots are essentially technicians and you don't really need anything past a high school diploma to do it. The carriers just imposed the requirements because it was a way to thin the herd and get better people.

We were all told 50 years ago that affirmative action wouldn't result in quotas. It is quite clear now that not only is that not true, but the quota is out the window: from now on, if a White male is employed ANYWHERE it will be controversial.

35 posted on 03/08/2024 4:41:29 PM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: libh8er

"Next lesson is landing the plane? No thank you. Not necessary."

36 posted on 03/08/2024 4:43:26 PM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: Bonemaker
They were indeed.Minority guys having *earned* a place in Air Force or Navy Flight School are fine with me being behind the wheel of a 787. Otherwise,I'll walk...thanks very much.
37 posted on 03/08/2024 4:43:42 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: LouAvul
I'm glad I don't have to fly anymore. The airlines keep lowering their standards. Many, many years ago, flying was a wonderful experience.

Today pilots are the last bastion of competence. Soon we might as well fly Somali Airlines. BLM pilots, and fat, old, lesbian dikes for cabin stewards.

38 posted on 03/08/2024 4:49:09 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: libh8er

Ou ah what dis button fo?


39 posted on 03/08/2024 4:49:49 PM PST by Mouton (A 150MT hit will not solve our problems now.)
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To: Chode
That boy don't look right in the head.

40 posted on 03/08/2024 4:52:01 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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