Study: Early retirements create unique pilot career opportunities – go with the right flight school

Dear you, who is considering a commercial pilot career,

Since the Covid-19 pandemic made its appearance throughout the world, the thought of pursuing a career as a commercial pilot has not been the most obvious one. It’s no wonder if you’re asking yourself a couple of questions when condering to invest in an expensive pilot education, like what is the short- and long-term forecast for the industry, and what does it mean for your chance of getting a job at one of the airlines when training is complete?

But there is good news according to a recent interview featured on CNBC:

New study: Early retirements create promising career opportunities

A new study conducted by Geoff Murray, partner at Oliver Wyman, has just revealed an expected pilot shortage of 34,000 pilots by 2025 (and around 50,000 by 2029). The primary reason for this is an unexpected amount of early retirements among commercial pilots whereof most are not expected to return to pilot jobs after the pandemic, leaving a huge gap to be filled by new pilots.

Geoff Murray foresees a bit of a boom for flight schools within the next 12 to 18 months, and as he says in the interview: “an individual who’s considering to become a pilot is looking at a career projection that is unlike anything we have seen in decades.”

You can watch the interview with Geoff Murray here:

Choose a FlightLogger partner for the best possible pilot training

If you are deciding to become a commercial pilot and help filling out the expected gap, it’s crucial that you give yourself the best odds to get your career started well. There are more than two thousand flight schools to pick from. We are not afraid to recommend that you prioritize any of the numerous schools managing the pilot training operations using the FlightLogger platform.

Here’s why we recommend that you choose a flight school using FlightLogger platform as the digital foundation:

• Your entire training record is digitalized and available 24/7 through the industry’s most user-friendly platform. This gives you as a student full access to all your ground and flight training for optimized preparation, review and progression tracking no matter the time or place.
• All your daily tasks and to-does (scheduling, communication, documentation etc.) are handled in one system only. This allows you as a student to spend all your effort on your training instead of chasing down information in various different systems, spreadsheets and paper folders.
• Being a student at flight school that has invested in a professional training management system is your guarantee that the school is future minded and wants the best training environment for their students. Using one system only for all their daily operations will help the school standardize all workflows and allow for maximum utilization of the school’s resources. This way your school can also spend all their effort on giving you the best training possible instead of chasing down information in various different systems, spreadsheets and paper folders.
• If the schools are using FlightLogger CBTA Pro you will additionally have the world’s leading platform supporting CBTA (Competency-Based Training and Assessment) This will give you a huge advantage both during your training and afterwards when applying for your first airline job since CBTA has been the preferred standard in the airline industry for years.

We could mention other reasons why, but the most important advantage of choosing one of our partners is that you are guaranteed to enroll at a flight school that understands the importance of using modern technology to train tomorrows aviators. Our partners do not find various different systems, spreadsheets, whiteboards and paper folders good enough, they have invested in a professional training management system to keep the highest possible standards in order to give you the best training possible.

A good example is our Norwegian partner Pilot Flight Academy, who has been able to create a huge success on top of the digital FlightLogger platform.

Many other flight schools have experienced the same kind of success together with us. In fact, when looking at the three years up until the pandemic hit us, FlightLogger partners grew by 55 percent on average within a three year period, measured by the number active pilot students at these schools.

Also, during the pandemic, FlightLogger partners have managed to do quite well considering the circumstances, which you can read about in our articles on Impact of Covid-19 on Pilot Training, found on our blog.

How to find a FlightLogger-based flight school

To find the nearest flight school using FlightLogger, locate our partners via this page.