US Pilot shortage: CTC to open a new training center in the USA
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US Pilot shortage: CTC to open a new training center in the USA
Global airline pilot training company CTC Aviation to open new Crew Training Centre in North America - CTC Aviation
CTC has destroyed our industry in europe and will now do the same in the USA.
CTC has destroyed our industry in europe and will now do the same in the USA.
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I think the 1500 hour rule would destroy any hopes they had of replicating what they've done in Europe though. As far as I can see from the article it is just going to be a new training facility for the existing trainees from Europe etc, not an attempt to provide training for US citizens.
Interesting that they say they are investing $7 Million in the facilities. As far as I know the facilities there are all owned by Lufthansa. The claim that this will result in an ability to train upto 200 pilots a year there is also ambiguous since that is the number that Oxford regularly sent there.
Gotta love the quote: Rob Clarke, Group CEO of CTC Aviation said “The airline industry has been predicting an impending pilot shortage for some time now"
Yeah, for about 40 years now I think..
Interesting that they say they are investing $7 Million in the facilities. As far as I know the facilities there are all owned by Lufthansa. The claim that this will result in an ability to train upto 200 pilots a year there is also ambiguous since that is the number that Oxford regularly sent there.
Gotta love the quote: Rob Clarke, Group CEO of CTC Aviation said “The airline industry has been predicting an impending pilot shortage for some time now"
Yeah, for about 40 years now I think..
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CTC wants the FAA to allow the MPL licence as an alternate to the 1500 hrs rule.
In this case they will provide hundreds and hundreds of 20 years old cadets to the US feeder airlines and guess what? the shortage issue will be solved out straight away.
Canada has already adopted this ******* MPL licence.
In this case they will provide hundreds and hundreds of 20 years old cadets to the US feeder airlines and guess what? the shortage issue will be solved out straight away.
Canada has already adopted this ******* MPL licence.
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CTC has destroyed our industry in europe and will now do the same in the USA.
You are absolutely right! They finished to get any potential amount of money from the european market and now they will move to U.S.A. where there is still a potential to get money and make a business into aviation field.
Gotta love the quote: Rob Clarke, Group CEO of CTC Aviation said “The airline industry has been predicting an impending pilot shortage for some time now"
Yeah, for about 40 years now I think..
Yeah, for about 40 years now I think..
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It will be interesting to see the next future in aviation. To get a pilot license has been quite an expensive education and we are talking pilot shortage for quite some long years. My feeling, this is just a shortage of cheap pilots, not pilots at all. There are maybe thousands of unemployed right now on Europe, but they won't work for the salary the typical pax is financing with his 50 bucks round-the-world all inclusive habit.
So, two choices: costs for the ticket has to go up or pilots salary go down. From experience of the last couple of years, option one is unlikely. Consequently they have to find a way to make pilot production cheaper. One way is for asian countries to cash in their cost of living advantage and produce hundreds of, maybe even government paid, pilots. By this you could take over the whole industry. If someone like Al Quaeeda is smart, they could do the same ... Do we want such and is there an alternative?
So, two choices: costs for the ticket has to go up or pilots salary go down. From experience of the last couple of years, option one is unlikely. Consequently they have to find a way to make pilot production cheaper. One way is for asian countries to cash in their cost of living advantage and produce hundreds of, maybe even government paid, pilots. By this you could take over the whole industry. If someone like Al Quaeeda is smart, they could do the same ... Do we want such and is there an alternative?
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I think norwegian is already some ways along in developing a cheap pilot model. Its called a Thai contract, under Singapore labour laws, by a norwegian operator flying US manufactured aircraft on an Irish AOC across the Atlantic.
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Why?
I am a Captain with a major UK carrier and have been flying for almost twenty years. Like everyone else, during the last ten years or so, I have witnessed the demise of our profession thanks to airlines like easyjet and Ryanair and the like. Salaries and T's&C's have never been so poor and many pilots are now having to pay for their own uniforms and training as well as interviews and assessments to get the job in the first place. The "lucky" ones who get hired are then worked to death flying 900+ hours a year.
I fly regularly with First Officers who have spent somewhere between £75K and £110K to get to the RHS in an airline. Most can't afford to buy houses or luxury items because of their flying training debts. I admire their efforts and dedication but I cannot understand why anyone would want to become an Airline Pilot now.
My advice to any aspiring aviator would be to get a PPL, enjoy flying on a Sunday morning and put the rest of the money towards a mortgage on a property! I wish I didn't feel like this but I'm afraid its the way things are.
I fly regularly with First Officers who have spent somewhere between £75K and £110K to get to the RHS in an airline. Most can't afford to buy houses or luxury items because of their flying training debts. I admire their efforts and dedication but I cannot understand why anyone would want to become an Airline Pilot now.
My advice to any aspiring aviator would be to get a PPL, enjoy flying on a Sunday morning and put the rest of the money towards a mortgage on a property! I wish I didn't feel like this but I'm afraid its the way things are.
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£75K and £110K
As far as I can see the slightly better job of ryr and ezy would be ezy and the starting pay there is £38K, as I understand it from a certain rumour network forum.
I guess if you are the skygod ace of the CTC intake then it is possible to achieve command in 5 years? And the money would improve to such an extent that you can look to start servicing the debt AND buy a house etc etc - I guess upto that point it really has to be one or the other. I simply cannot understand how someone can sleep on a night carrying that sort of debt/return around
The question is... are the Americans going to accept a business model that puts the employee of such a high risk occupation in such an incredibly precarious position?
Hopefully the body of existing pilots in the US and those working their way into the better airlines see what is coming before it is too late. The damage done to the industry in the UK and Europe by the two big locos is clear to see.
It would be nice to think the US model was adopted here rather than the CTC model implemented over the pond. But as it is clear to see money talks
I guess if you are the skygod ace of the CTC intake then it is possible to achieve command in 5 years? And the money would improve to such an extent that you can look to start servicing the debt AND buy a house etc etc - I guess upto that point it really has to be one or the other. I simply cannot understand how someone can sleep on a night carrying that sort of debt/return around
The question is... are the Americans going to accept a business model that puts the employee of such a high risk occupation in such an incredibly precarious position?
Hopefully the body of existing pilots in the US and those working their way into the better airlines see what is coming before it is too late. The damage done to the industry in the UK and Europe by the two big locos is clear to see.
It would be nice to think the US model was adopted here rather than the CTC model implemented over the pond. But as it is clear to see money talks
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Hi Three Lions. I don't think the FAA would put up with this instant coffee cadet cr&p. No more short cutting it over there with the 1500 hr rule. As said I cant see them trying the same model; it looks like its a case of them opening a school. Hopefully the guys in the USA will vote with 2 fingers, jump on a plane to Crawley then grab a taxi down to SRG to ask what the hell kind of dog and pony show the CAA are running here. Then I hear pigs have received CofAs.
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Canada?s Multi-crew Pilot Licence (MPL) - Transport Canada
Canada is starting to welcome MPL licence, which in other words is a scheme to get cheap cadets with no experience. (No experience= cheap employee).
The US FAA is already under a tremendous pressure from ALL the feeder/regional US airlines due to possible pilot shortage in the near future and there are now 3 solutions to keep their business on:
-To increase pilots salaries.... No way
-To cancel the 1500 hours rule... I really doubt
-To approuve the MPL licence program that allows type rated cadets in the cockpits...and that is very likely to happen.
CTC is aiming to grab this highly lucrative market and this is the right time for them to get set up in the USA.
Canada is starting to welcome MPL licence, which in other words is a scheme to get cheap cadets with no experience. (No experience= cheap employee).
The US FAA is already under a tremendous pressure from ALL the feeder/regional US airlines due to possible pilot shortage in the near future and there are now 3 solutions to keep their business on:
-To increase pilots salaries.... No way
-To cancel the 1500 hours rule... I really doubt
-To approuve the MPL licence program that allows type rated cadets in the cockpits...and that is very likely to happen.
CTC is aiming to grab this highly lucrative market and this is the right time for them to get set up in the USA.
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Last time I checked Canada and the United States of America were two separate countries? Hell they even went to war in South Park Bigger, Longer, Uncut.
I very much doubt the US Authorities are going to introduce legislation that is easily circumvented by a technicality on a licence issue. Keep the hysteria in check on this one please? It's a flight school for existing students, nothing more nothing less.
I very much doubt the US Authorities are going to introduce legislation that is easily circumvented by a technicality on a licence issue. Keep the hysteria in check on this one please? It's a flight school for existing students, nothing more nothing less.
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I guess if you are the skygod ace of the CTC intake then it is possible to achieve command in 5 years?
Anyway, without too much thread drift: can somebody explain what has happened in the US with this CTC "opening"? I tried to find out from their press releases et. al. but it was all waffle and no actual information on what was new, what was there before, who else uses the airport etc. etc.
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The big flight schools at aeronautical universities in the States have been reducing their fleets - nobody wants to pay 150K+ for a degree and a job that starts at 30K. It is simple maths. Plus, I read that the US military is being cut drastically by Obama and that will likely reduce flight time among the military aviators in the States. The airlines will get fewer good candidates over time.
Let's hope salaries rise in the US and Europe as a result of the growing demand/supply imbalance...
Let's hope salaries rise in the US and Europe as a result of the growing demand/supply imbalance...
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Last time I checked Canada and the United States of America were two separate countries? Hell they even went to war in South Park Bigger, Longer, Uncut.
CTC is already very well equiped with great facilities in the UK and new zeland, if they come to the USA, it's not (only) for the local cheesburgers!!!
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If they did create some sort of MPL short cut then it would fly in the face of everything they have just justified to congress and the industry with the airline safety act. Whatever is said, one thing I have always admired is North America's attitude to aviation. Sometimes the old fashioned works. I hope they stick with it and make it stick.
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very much doubt the US Authorities are going to introduce legislation that is easily circumvented by a technicality on a licence issue.
@$$es like Bryan Bedford and his colleagues sit down and plan these types of things. They would rather spend a hundred million dollars on ways to keep pilot salaries low than to just use that money to fire qualified pilots.
nobody wants to pay 150K+ for a degree and a job that starts at 30K.
I read that the US military is being cut drastically by Obama and that will likely reduce flight time among the military aviators in the States
The military flying is being cut back because it's shifting heavily to UAVs and most US military pilots these days never actually log any flight time.
I think the real lesson here is to get out of the airline industry and get into the pilot training industry!!