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Imachickadee75 · 06-18-2008, 08:58 AM

Hey there. I had to laugh-hard the other night when I opened my Readers Digest and found this article.

Airplane Pilot Shares His Thoughts | Your America | Reader's Digest

I particularly like the part where he assures his passengers that he doesn't have any scissors or oversized shampoo bottles either!

I'm a little surprized to see it in a very wide-reaching magazine like this but GREAT! Now if he'd only thrown in comments about pay and down time in airports......

There is a lot more to the article in the actual magazine. It talks a lot about pilot fatigue and low entry hours due to fewer pilots coming in to the field from the military. It also mentions that "the industry will need to hire 100,000 new pilots by 2020 to keep up with demand according to Air Inc, a company that tracks pilot hirings; this exceeds the current capacity of flight schools."

Very interesting.....

Jackie

06-18-2008, 08:58 AM	#1 (permalink)
Imachickadee75 Jetgirls Ol' School Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: oklahoma Posts: 694 Recipes: Thanks: 1 Thanked 19 Times in 11 Posts	Anybody get Readers Digest -Pilot article Hey there. I had to laugh-hard the other night when I opened my Readers Digest and found this article. Airplane Pilot Shares His Thoughts \| Your America \| Reader's Digest I particularly like the part where he assures his passengers that he doesn't have any scissors or oversized shampoo bottles either! I'm a little surprized to see it in a very wide-reaching magazine like this but GREAT! Now if he'd only thrown in comments about pay and down time in airports...... There is a lot more to the article in the actual magazine. It talks a lot about pilot fatigue and low entry hours due to fewer pilots coming in to the field from the military. It also mentions that "the industry will need to hire 100,000 new pilots by 2020 to keep up with demand according to Air Inc, a company that tracks pilot hirings; this exceeds the current capacity of flight schools." Very interesting..... Jackie __________________ Welcoming baby #3 this spring!