Unfortunately, appropriate actions were not taken during the Covid pandemic to prevent the crisis now in play: grounded airliners due to pilot shortages. Captain John Bent, FRAeS, decries the ‘perfect storm’ in airline pilot training.
During Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s White House visit, US President Joe Biden called out Boeing’s intention to make a significant investment in the Indian civil aerospace industry and help address that nation’s burgeoning demand for pilots.
While the total number of women pilots has increased over the past six decades, women flight instructors, commercial pilots and air transport pilots have increased at a rate of 1% per decade. One. Percent. Per decade.