As the industry prepares for a possible pilot shortage, an organization called the Professional Aviation Board of Certification (PABC) has its own plan to address the problem: create a more professional and robust pilot training system that targets pilots as they begin learning how to fly or transition into flying careers. “Our intent is to create what amounts to a standard for pre-employment training of professional pilots,” said Pete Wolfe, a former military pilot and retired Southwest Airlines pilot who is executive director of the non-profit organization (www.pabc.aero).
Wolfe believes that the way pilots enter professional flying jobs is haphazard and that more pilots would make it into the professional flying ranks and overall safety would improve if accredited institutions trained future career pilots to a globally recognized standard.
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