GOP when is the government suppose to step in and regulate businesses? Your message seems to be all over the place.
Whenever gay happens, duh.
(/s of course)
Don’t forget women’s bodily autonomy as well.
sigh
Dude don’t even get me started. It’s so depressing being a woman in this stupid country.
Women aren’t allowed to be depressed. \s
The actual reason for a pilot shortage is due to fewer military pilots which used to transition to civilian pilots. It has nothing to do with the Department of Transportation.
The 1500 hour rule means before you can fly folks in these commercial settings you have to have a LOT of hours. The way a lot of non-military folks do this is by being a flight instructor for many years - living on pennies. Then they can finally go work for a regional airline and make pennies.
And the fix from congress has been to weaken training standards, while we’ve seen a string of near-crashes this year
The other reason, also related to military, is that a couple of months ago the FAA integrated their records system with the VA. Because of some records disparities, specifically health records, thousands of pilots have had their license suspended. This happened to someone I know and they got all their documentation to the FAA in early April and as of 2 weeks ago they were told to expect 3-5 more months of a wait before it’s reviewed because they’re so bogged down
The path for non-military folks to start from private pilot and end up at airline transport pilot is technically there, but unless you’ve got a bunch of money sitting around, it’s very prohibitive. And with pilot salaries being what they are, and not what they used to be, it’s an even harder sell.
Any since the reduction of forces since the 90s the number of commercial pilots has fallen.
“Far-right Republicans in the House, though, are attempting to use that same bill to attack transgender rights. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is trying to insert amendments to the bill to “prohibit funding from being used to promote the LGBTQ initiatives and policies within the FAA.” She said that the FAA must be stopped from posting LGBTQ+ content to their Twitter account.”
Flight school is outrageously expensive, and once you have your commercial certification, you almost always start out as a flight instructor making too little to handle the loans.
I went to a technical college for commercial flight training. I got as far as getting my private pilot cert and a multi-engine endorsement, then did an entire IFR course in the simulator… And then I was denied for any more loans to continue the training, so I went like $70k in debt towards a job I could never have.
Not that I was thrilled about the idea of being a flight instructor, either. I don’t have the patience for that…
They gotta figure out a way to make it actually affordable or attainable, without needing to join the military and all the bullshit that comes with that.
Isn’t it sort of a walled garden that way, an industry captured by and protected by this large barrier to entry which ensures a supply of jobs to those to ex-military pilots? Seems to happen in a lot of industries, artificially limiting supply to protect a pre existing privilege. Or am I just imagining things, I’m not familiar with the aviation industry.
> They gotta figure out a way to make it actually affordable or attainable, without needing to join the military and all the bullshit that comes with that.
The normal way this works is zero-interest federally-back student loans with a path to forgiveness via public service.
For pilots, perhaps include working as a pilot for (n) years means forgiveness.
Would love it too if the government would stop using taxpayer money to bail out these airline companies for their shitty actions. That’s why they can get away with not paying their workers a better wage or have to fix their broken systems.
Pretty sure they accidentally used a picture of Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider.
She does look shockingly close to Dee Snider in Karen drag.
Pretty sure Dee Snider would not approve of this comparison. ;)
