Heads Up World, We Don’t Have Enough Pilots: Iata

[peter991]

Heads up world, we don’t have enough pilots: IATA

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has just declared that the airlines of the world are heading for a global pilot shortage if the industry and governments can’t work together to improve practices.

From new figures, IATA estimates that the industry will need as many as 17,000 new pilots annually due to the incredible industry growth and unavoidable factor of retirement.

“Increasing the retirement age to 65 will help but it can’t be the only solution. It’s time to ring the warning bell. We must re-think pilot training and qualification to further improve safety and increase training capacity,” said Giovanni Bisignani, IATA Director General and CEO.

“There are no global standards for training concepts or regulation. Pilot training has not changed in 60 years – we are still ticking boxes with an emphasis on flight hours.”

IATA has suggested furthering the competency-based approach of multi-crew pilot licensing (PML) training programmes, which focus on multi-pilot cockpit working conditions and is believed to better make use of simulator technology.

Launching the IATA Training and Qualification Initiative (ITQI), IATA aims to support a global role out of MPL as the industry standard.

“Our goal is to increase the pool of candidates and training capacity while improving standards,” said Mr Bisignani.

Mr Bisignani also took the chance to encourage governments to cooperate with the industry to achieve its goals.

Peter

Note: The underlines are mine. With the incredible growth in low-cost airlines, what will happen to safety standards?

[londonthai]

maybe now we should travel more by sea or trains?

[ProThaiExpat]

Fortunately, most newer aircraft are largely flown my computers. My guess that the increased safety experienced by the Airlines is that pilots do less in actual hands on flying everyday when flying their aircraft.

It took the IATA more than two years, after the mid-air collision over Germany, before they told pilots to listen to their on board avoidance computer and ignore air traffic controllers when it came to collision avoidance. The lesson is the less we rely on fallible humans and more on intelligent machines, the better off we will be. I know this is not a politically correct point of view, but the facts speak for themselves.

The newest fighter jets are entirely computer operated allowing the pilot full time weapons direction.

[Mosha]

Will my flightsim experience count?

[sibeymai]

Will my flightsim experience count?

It may well come to that.

In applying for an air traffic controller's position it was necessary to undertake a 3 hour air traffic control simulation as a pre-interview screening assessment. This meant learning air traffic control fundamentals and procedures just to apply for a job. How else to learn such things and prepare for the 3 hour simulation exercise other than by a simulator ? And this was 25 years ago.

It's not so unrealistic that in the future flight simulator experience will be regarded positively for prospective pilots.

In some categories of private pilot's licenses time logged using approved simulator software is already accepted in liue of actual flight time.

[tw25rw]

Heads up world, we don't have enough pilots: IATA

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has just declared that the airlines of the world are heading for a global pilot shortage if the industry and governments can't work together to improve practices.

From new figures, IATA estimates that the industry will need as many as 17,000 new pilots annually due to the incredible industry growth and unavoidable factor of retirement.

"Increasing the retirement age to 65 will help but it can't be the only solution. It's time to ring the warning bell. We must re-think pilot training and qualification to further improve safety and increase training capacity," said Giovanni Bisignani, IATA Director General and CEO.

Have to give the air hostesses some simulator time so they cal help with take offs/landings. Then you'll only need one actual pilot per plane.

[AoNuDa]

After our successful 1st conference, we are proud to announce the 2nd ThaiSim conference.

ThaiSim 2010

Learning from experience through games and simulations

25-27 March, 2010 (Thurs-Fri-Sat)

Rajamangala University of Technology Srivijaya, Trang, Thailand

Proposal deadline = 30 Nov, 2009. Early-bird registration = 16 Feb, 2010.

http://www.thaisim.org/en/thaisim_2010.htm

Thai Simulation and Gaming Association

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