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Air Force Times: Commercial aircraft industry’s woes could help Air Force pilot retention
It’s too early to know how the new coronavirus pandemic could impact ongoing Air Force efforts to decrease the pilot shortage, the head of Air Education and Training Command said Friday.
“Well, it’s not helping,” said AETC Commander Lt. Gen. Brad Webb, who acknowledged that the service’s undergraduate pilot training capacity has been reduced due to the spread of COVID-19.
Though the production of new pilots could suffer, there is a silver lining: Usually during times of crisis, the Air Force is able to retain a greater number of experienced pilots who might have retired and moved to the commercial sector, Webb said during the teleconference with reporters.
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WNU Editor: I do not see commercial/civilian aircraft flying as much as they use to. Definitely not for another year. So yes. The U.S. Air Force will retain its pilots, and may gain even more.
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Wnu..why? I'd think they would accelerate with their unmanned programs. Covid19 just another nail in the coffin. Why have a human pilot? Especially if two air craft carriers are now down with covid..one sailor on the TDR died of it
Dr Birx came right out in public and said they would lie about Corona deaths.
She said that if a person has corona, but died of something else or of several things that cause of death would be listed as corona.
A sailor died on TDR. What did he or she die of? We don't know.
Have you ever seen an HIV brief and 6 months later after a deployment it was reported that someone managed to pick it up. So, if that person would also have picked up corona, would it be classified as a corona death or an HIV death?
Didn't hear the scuttlebutt on it. Don't know if that person went to the hotel, we were warned to not visit or we would be fired. Nowadays, it would be 'okay'. It would be okay after electing a person president who had a membership to a club called Mans Country. But it is okay, because membership records were destroyed in a fire.
It'll help retention in the short term, but in the long term it'll probably be exasperated. There were RCAF pilots looking to go AC or WJ, but pulled their releases because of the current airline situation. However, they still intend to switch over when the situation improves. In the meantime, airline pilot retirement age is 65 so pilots will still be retiring with no one replacing them during this crisis plus there will be a fair number of early retirements. Pilot recruitment and training, both military and civilian, is grounding to a halt. At the end of the day, the pilot shortage on the commercial side will probably be worse coming out of this than it was going in.
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