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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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airlines; dei; pilots; why
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
Soon we might as well fly Somali Airlines

Actually Somali Airlines might be safer because they don't have to fill racial quotas.

41 posted on 03/08/2024 4:58:14 PM PST by libh8er
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To: wildcard_redneck

There is no replacement, it is destruction writ large.

This is a machine killing the world’s cultures and warmongering them against each other


42 posted on 03/08/2024 5:09:27 PM PST by lavaroise
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To: libh8er

Doubling down on the case of that aircraft crash/incident involving a chick getting favoritist treatment


43 posted on 03/08/2024 5:11:25 PM PST by lavaroise
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To: libh8er

Oh goody!


44 posted on 03/08/2024 5:12:23 PM PST by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: LouAvul
..and that all they need to do so is a high school diploma, and read and write English, the
international language of aviation..

Hoot Mon! Captain, I think I see a speed-bump, the likes of which rivals the Great Wall of China.

45 posted on 03/08/2024 5:25:25 PM PST by Thommas (The snout of the camel is already under the tent.)
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To: libh8er

46 posted on 03/08/2024 5:25:42 PM PST by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: libh8er

I have a gas-guzzling vehicle. I will drive. If I can’t get there by driving, I don’t want to go there.


47 posted on 03/08/2024 5:30:07 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: libh8er

I think we now understand the increase in aviation accidents.


48 posted on 03/08/2024 5:31:44 PM PST by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: libh8er

Afraid to fly yet?


49 posted on 03/08/2024 5:34:02 PM PST by teletech (you)
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To: libh8er

Just a High School graduation, and off to pilot school.


50 posted on 03/08/2024 5:41:48 PM PST by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: libh8er

I’m flying again soon, ugh. Not for vacation. Family stuff and probably will have to fly 2 or 3 more times this year.


51 posted on 03/08/2024 5:43:00 PM PST by dynachrome (War does not determine who is right, but who is left.)
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To: libh8er

“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.

https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2023/10/oregon-again-says-students-dont-need-to-prove-mastery-of-reading-writing-or-math-to-graduate-citing-harm-to-students-of-color.html


52 posted on 03/08/2024 5:45:18 PM PST by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: Bonemaker

Photoshop


53 posted on 03/08/2024 5:46:42 PM PST by nwrep
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To: libh8er

Are these people going to be responsible for those killed by the black and women pilots?


54 posted on 03/08/2024 6:06:01 PM PST by xxqqzz
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To: libh8er

Cool.

Maybe I’ll start an Illegal Immigrant Pilot Advancement Foundation.


55 posted on 03/08/2024 6:08:01 PM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: libh8er

So now buying an airline ticket is airfare roulette.


56 posted on 03/08/2024 6:48:46 PM PST by lurk (u)
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To: libh8er

“Where de alti-meter at?”


57 posted on 03/08/2024 7:06:07 PM PST by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: libh8er

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.


58 posted on 03/08/2024 7:39:10 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: ridesthemiles
YES-—CAN YOU JUST SEE A FANI WILLIS AT THE COCKPIT OF A 747 WITH 300 +++ on board???

No, I can't see that. Because no US airline flies the B747 with passengers. They're only cargo now.

59 posted on 03/08/2024 8:42:44 PM PST by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

THAS RACISS


60 posted on 03/08/2024 8:46:40 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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