Training and Workforce
Bizav 101 lacking from future pilots’ curriculum
Where will we find tomorrow’s pilots? The military, long a provider of trained aviators, hasn’t produced sufficient numbers to satisfy the civil aviation d

Where will we find tomorrow’s pilots? The military, long a provider of trained aviators, hasn’t produced sufficient numbers to satisfy the civil aviation demand for quite some time. It is the collegiate and private-academy flight-training programs that have taken up the slack and will continue to be the primary provider of pilots indefinitely.

While anyone in corporate aviation can tick off the ills of airline operations, the one area in which airlines are very successful is recognizing the quality of civilian-trained pilots and recruiting them. Part of the reason for their success is simply because an airline pilot’s career is far more visible than its corporate counterpart, but the airlines are also playing it smarter. They are actively engaging civilian professional pilot training programs with internships and bridge programs.

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