Originally Posted by
muermel
Anyway, from what I've heard there's several hundred positions vacant in HEMS allone, plus GOM, plus tourism, plus utility. If the company can prove it can't get americans to do the job (which should be easy by now, considering for how long they've been advertising) why would it be so difficult to get a foreigner with an FAA licence? Otherwise, where are these pilots supposed to be coming from?
HEMS has been smothering the jobs boards for at least twenty years. At this point I no longer believe they really need anyone as badly as they want us to think.
,...and as long as you still need 1,000 hours to fly tourists in a straight line for five minutes over Vegas, the pilot shortage will be nothing more than a marketing hook created by flight schools to drum up more students.