Wed, Sep 21, 2011
Company Predicts 460,000 New Pilots Needed By 2030
If industry forecasts are correct, there's a severe pilot
shortage coming. Boeing says 460,000 new commercial pilots will be
needed by the year 2030, at the same time the military is moving
wholesale into unmanned vehicles, pinching off a major traditional
source of new jet pilots. On Tuesday, a Boeing exec explained what
he thinks will be needed to close the gap.
Speaking at the Asia Pacific Airline Training Symposium in
Bangkok, Roei Ganzarski, chief customer officer, Boeing Flight
Services, said the industry must focus on adopting newer methods of
instruction that have proven successful in other fields. It's not
just a problem with pilots - Boeing forecasts a need for
tens-of-thousands of new instructors, and 650,000 new commercial
airline maintenance technicians over the next two decades.
Ganzarski commented, "We must advance the training profession in
order to attract and retain the passionate and competent talent
needed to train the vast numbers of aviation personnel required. We
need to train them in a way that is adaptable to a generation
steeped in mobile and on-line technology.
"It should no longer be about an instructor's number of flying
hours. The next wave of professional instructors should place
greater emphasis on student aptitude to ensure students reach their
fullest potential."
To meet the demand for new pilots, Boeing estimates that the
training industry will need a minimum of 1,200 new pilot
instructors every year for the next twenty years.
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