What shortage?
There is no shortage ! Stop the propaganda !!!!
The shortage Vertical is taking about is about very experienced pilot in a limited numbers of field.
If you have a lots of long line experience, if you have a specific twin engine experience, if you are highly qualified on a specific aircraft used for specific jobs, there you will have some opportunities, but anybody with 100 hours has no chance because it is even worst than before when you already had to prostitute yourself for a number of years to get something, who, for some guys, worked, and for other, did not.
You have better chance of becoming a mechanic than a pilot at this time, the maintenance side of aviation is requiring people.
Of course, school are business, so they always tell you that you will have opportunities because it is a business, nothing else, nothing more.
The training is crap ! that's the reality ! We are not prepared to work and every companies know that. This idea that 100 hours is enough to put you on the job is wrong and we have the proof every day.
Everybody who has done it know that when you finished school, you don't know anything about working with an helicopter. It is not only about flying time, it is also dealing with the immense pressure to please your customer and the company who hired you.
In aviation, you don't know what you don't know !
It looks simple and stupid, but a sad reality. As long as we are not preparing a student to be able to work, we will have this situation with no end in sight. People have to accept that you need a lot more than 100 hours and the industry has to partner school to change to all game.
But, unfortunately, we are very far away from that.
It is not the first 500 hours who is important, it is what you did during those 500 hours.
I have seen so many guys coming and spending all this money to end up doing something else at the end.
I have seen guys getting their chance and having their career destroyed after a crash or an incident.
Why? Were they stupid or incompetent?
No, they were NOT PREPARED FOR THE JOB!
So, instead of talking about pilot shortage, they should talk about what should be done to prepare pilots to work in this industry.