I think there is a misconception about EB2. This visa is not geared for pilots only, it’s available for anyone that meets the criteria, on a fiscal year, applicants compete for a limited number of visas available and within the group of applicants there are doctors, engineers, pilots, etc… those approved will then go on to submit paperwork to NVC (stage 2) and then wait on another cue for NVC to give the approval or request for more documents and so on. That visa number again is for many professionals and this year I believe was 160000 for 2024 FY. It will drop back to 140K for 2025 most likely. The previous number were bigger because of unused visas during 2019 and 2020 (due to C19). Besides this comes the filing and cutoff dates, so it’s another cue to wait after NVC approves and sends documents to an embassy. You may have been approved on a specific year, but it will depend on the visa bulletin when you will advance through the process.