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The Pilot Shortage – From Student Pilots To The Atps, Joe Clark M.A.S.
The Pilot Shortage – From Student Pilots To The Atps, Joe Clark M.A.S.
National Training Aircraft Symposium (NTAS)
Aviation is now facing an incredible pilot shortage, a shortage greater than anticipated in the past. Young pilots learned of the upcoming pilot shortage when told the World War II pilots were retiring, followed by the Korean aviators, then the jet jockeys of Vietnam. Somehow, those shortages never seemed to happen.
Today, it is a different story. According to statistics maintained by the Federal Aviation Administration, the number of active pilots dropped from more than 800,000 in 1980 to just over 633,000 in 2018. Over the course of those years, the numbers steadily declined with an occasional uptick over the …