CAE launches Global Academy to address looming pilot shortage

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CAE launches Global Academy to address looming pilot shortage


Canadian simulator maker and training solutions
provider CAE, citing demand for up to 18,000 new
airline pilots annually over the next 20 years,
launched the CAE Global Academy, describing it as "a
network of flight training organizations offering
pilot candidates the required training for a
commercial pilot's license and a clear path, via the
global CAE training network, for continuing on to a
specific type-rating and ultimate career as an airline
pilot."
CAE has signed alliance agreements with an initial
three FTOs--International Airline Training Academy
based in Arizona, Malaysia-based HM Aerospace and
Academia Aeronautica de Evora in Portugal. In
aggregate, the three have the capability to graduate
more than 600 commercial pilots annually. These pilots
then will proceed to type-rating qualification at one
of CAE's training centers. The company said it is in
discussions with other flight schools around the
world.
CAE said that in the future it will use the academy to
introduce a standardized Multi-Crew Pilot License
curriculum and courseware along with supporting flight
training devices.
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Is this the pilot shortage that I hear about in 2000, or the one I heard about in 2001, or 2002, etc.? This pilot shortage thing is a mith or fairy tale of sorts to get people excited. Its like the chupacabra of the airline word
 
No actually the shortage will happen on June 23, 2009 at 4:34 p.m. Fred Stevens of Continental Airlines will officially retire which will push the industry officially into a shortage. :sarcasm:

On September 10, 2001 the airline industry was in fairly good shape.
 
All this says to me is they figured out how to get people with VERY little flying experience through a jet type rating program. I hardly think IATA/CAE is going to become a major pipeline for pilot hiring in this country.

Some places really do have a pilot shortage. They have a track record of hiring from programs like this. I seem to recall one Asian airline that does training in turbine aircraft as part of the program, not the typical Seminole/RJ sim/line pilot pattern you would more commonly see in US direct track.

I think the previous success the Asian airlines have had with ab initio is through a more stringent training program. Something in excess of a Regional Airline Academy type program.

Anyhow, I don't think there will ever be a pilot shortage in the US that mirrors what's going on in Asia. Unless all the airlines start to see pilot training as a revenue source, kinda like Mesa or Gulfstream, there is no reason to fix what isn't broke.
 
Even if there was a looming shortage, if they kept compensation at a respectable level and treated employees like professionals, there wouldn't be a need to ask "got a pulse and a key bank loan?! Come on down!"
 
There is a serious pilot shortage...just nowhere anyone here would want to work. And the problem in those places is A) a lack of a robust General Aviation sector and B) no one can afford the training. Kinda like it's gonna be here in the US in 15-20 years. :sarcasm:
 
We're already starting to see that B) here in the US. The cost of training for an $18K a year career is insane. I'm glad I got in when I did, otherwise I'd be doing something else right now. Not sure what, but it would be something with more of an equilibrium in cost of training vs income.

Oh, and Doug. Nobody gets Key Bank loans anymore. They stopped doing the aviation thing when they kept getting burned on defaults. At least, that's what I heard from most of the ATA guys in Orlando.
 
kellwolf said:
We're already starting to see that B) here in the US. The cost of training for an $18K a year career is insane.
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:yeahthat:

I think you're right.

I'm going to go and get all my ratings all the way up to the CFII. But after I get that, and teach enough students to get the hours I need to apply to an airline, I may very well say, you know what, I don't need to get to a job where I wear epaulets. I'm perfectly happy just teaching people how to fly and doing BFRs on the side.
 
The more time I spend around airplanes, the more I become like Fox Mulder-a believer in a conspiracy theory. What if the airlines all collaborated to promote these "pilot shortage" myths (a la AIR, Inc), arranged easy financing for flight schools, and thus increased pilot supply to such an extent that the salaries they found acceptable would go down? Simple supply versus demand, and everyone gets a cut.

While I don't seriously believe this, it runs through my head occasionally.
 
DE727UPS said:
All this says to me is they figured out how to get people with VERY little flying experience through a jet type rating program. I hardly think IATA/CAE is going to become a major pipeline for pilot hiring in this country.

Some places really do have a pilot shortage. They have a track record of hiring from programs like this. I seem to recall one Asian airline that does training in turbine aircraft as part of the program, not the typical Seminole/RJ sim/line pilot pattern you would more commonly see in US direct track.
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Yep, in the United States this program is simply not needed, there are many sources where the pilots come from: Military, General Aviation, even colleges, are just a couple that come to mind...

Outside of the United States, this Academy can help with the pilot shortage...
 
On September 10, 2001 the airline industry was in fairly good shape.[/quote]

I hope that you left your :sarcasm: icon off on that one as a mistake! September.11, 2001 was merely the "straw".
 
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