Please stop making disparaging remarks about this profession,
Sorry you feel my remarks are disparaging.
But we still come back to how low the bar is to get licensed to fly commercially.
As I have pointed out there is no education requirements...period.
Passing the T.C. exams is not that great a mountain to climb because if you fail an exam you can just take it over and over until you get the correct choices in the multiple choice format...sooner or later you will pass even if you really don't understand the subject.
The flight test is the same, just keep trying and sooner or later you should pass, because the bar is really not that high when it comes to flying skills.
I am personally going to lobby T.C to set the standard to 95%, then maybe idiots will not be able to make the cut!
95% of the standard required now won't really make that much difference, what is needed is a complete change in the standards required and go back to written exams that require a written answer...like it used to be which gives a far better in-site into just how well the person answering the question understands the subject.
I spent a lifetime hiring and training pilots and the quality of skills both flying wise and decision making wise left a lot to be desired in far to many licensed pilots.
Of course my lack of early formal education did not have any effect on my career because I made sure I understood what I was learning and never quit learning.
Flying can be a rewarding career for sure but there are far to many unrewarding careers out there.
You can make it better by getting rid of the way flight training is governed and replacing it with a more demanding path to the license.
The Canadian FTU system has been in a state of inertia for many decades and shows no sign of the drones in T.C. ever improving it.
But to do that you have to pay the teachers very well...that would be a good start right there because you sure do not get a quality product with sub par teaching.
It really does not matter to me any more because I retired in 2005 and had made enough to live real well for a long long time.
My negative remarks are driven by despair and sadness for the industry, not by my dislike for aviation because for me aviation was awesome and I got to fly for some of the worlds biggest aviation companies not to mention working as a adviser to the regulatory body in Europe ( EASA ).
So get together with your colleagues and change the regulatory system you have hanging around your necks now...
Your a legend in your own mind .....carry on oh god of the skies
