Originally Posted by
Look Mum - no hands
It seems like an academic argument at the moment though - do people really think that either:
1. There are hundreds of GA positions vacant, or
2. Those pilots with GA positions are about to voluntarily leave en-masse, or
3. GA employers are about to give their existing employees the boot to free up spaces for others, whatever experience they may bring, or
4. There is a huge expansion of GA just around the corner.....
The reality is that this has affected almost all sectors of the industry to some extent.
A quick browse of AFAP Latest Jobs shows a couple of heli jobs, a handful of instructing jobs, a few Chief Pilot jobs and maybe or two entry level GA jobs. Apart from that it’s sparse. A lot of entry level GA work is tourism, so that will suffer in the short term. Instructing jobs will suffer due to prospective career students being put off by a downturn in the industry and and private students from a recession. The one saving grace could be instructing of foreign students. Especially with the predicted growth in Asia in the future Asian airlines will probably assess they’ll need to more pilots in 18 months time after the pandemic so time to train them now, and if we were smart in this country we’d encourage as much foreign training as possible.