Queensland's Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) is trading training for loyalty in a new program to bring in more pilots.
Their aviation mentoring program is giving young pilots an opportunity to upskill and gain the extremely high number of flight hours needed to become aeromedical pilots. RFDS aeromedical pilots are required to have completed 4,000 flying hours, with 2,000 as pilot-in-command, including 200 hours as a pilot-in-command at night. Mount Isa senior base pilot Dave Keavy said the high number of flying hours required to work with the RFDS, paired with a global pilot shortage, made finding pilots difficult. "With the current pilot shortage, [the RFDS] are finding it very difficult to find people who have the sort of hours that they need," he said. "Generally [pilots], when they've got those sort of hours, they've been sucked up by the airlines." Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-17/rfds-feeling-effects-of-pilot-shortage-launches-program/11494640
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