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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Actually Somali Airlines might be safer because they don't have to fill racial quotas.
There is no replacement, it is destruction writ large.
This is a machine killing the world’s cultures and warmongering them against each other
Doubling down on the case of that aircraft crash/incident involving a chick getting favoritist treatment
Oh goody!
Hoot Mon! Captain, I think I see a speed-bump, the likes of which rivals the Great Wall of China.
I have a gas-guzzling vehicle. I will drive. If I can’t get there by driving, I don’t want to go there.
I think we now understand the increase in aviation accidents.
Afraid to fly yet?
Just a High School graduation, and off to pilot school.
I’m flying again soon, ugh. Not for vacation. Family stuff and probably will have to fly 2 or 3 more times this year.
“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,”
Yeah, let’s start with students from Oregon.
Oregon again says students don’t need to prove mastery of reading, writing or math to graduate, citing harm to students of color
Oregon high school students won’t have to prove basic mastery of reading, writing or math to graduate from high school until at least 2029, the state Board of Education decided unanimously on Thursday, extending the pause on the controversial graduation requirement that began in 2020.
Photoshop
Are these people going to be responsible for those killed by the black and women pilots?
Cool.
Maybe I’ll start an Illegal Immigrant Pilot Advancement Foundation.
So now buying an airline ticket is airfare roulette.
“Where de alti-meter at?”
We shall see how faithful DEIsciples feel about this when it is their arse sitting on the plane when Captain Darquavious be up in this joint.
No, I can't see that. Because no US airline flies the B747 with passengers. They're only cargo now.
THAS RACISS
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