47 The CFI Shortage – How it Happened and What You Can Do About It - Interview with Jason Blair
Aviation News Talk podcast
Glass Cockpit Publishing
4.8 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Jason talks about the shortage of the CFIs in the flight training industry, how that happened, what some companies are doing about it, and what you as a pilot can do about it. Here's a link to his 25-page white paper on the subject.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and thank you for joining us on Aviation News Talk for a Newsmaker's edition, where we sit down and talk to people who are making the news. |
| 0:09.2 | Now, there's been much discussion in the industry of a pilot shortage, especially for the regional airlines. |
| 0:14.4 | But there's also a shortage of CFIs or certificated flight instructors who teach pilots how to get a pilot certificate or an advanced rating. |
| 0:22.2 | And in a moment, we'll be sitting down with Jason Blair. |
| 0:24.8 | He's a designated pilot examiner who'll talk about the CFI shortage. |
| 0:28.4 | And he'll also talk about what you can do about it. |
| 0:31.2 | Also, we've made a change, and it's now easier to reach our Patreon page, and I'll tell you about that. |
| 0:36.9 | But now stand by because this |
| 0:38.6 | Newsmaker's edition starts now. |
| 1:01.1 | Welcome to Aviation News Talk, where we talk about general aviation and the people in our industry. |
| 1:08.3 | I'm Max Truscott, and if you're new to the show, we have a weekly show that shares pilot safety tips and general aviation news from around the world. |
| 1:11.4 | But we also interview movers and shakers in the aviation industry, which is what we're doing today. Earlier this week, we talked with Jason Blair about what |
| 1:16.2 | many of us have known for a long time, which is that there's a shortage of CFIs. And we also talked |
| 1:21.1 | about a few solutions to the problem. In just a second, we'll get to that interview. But I wanted |
| 1:25.4 | to thank listener Troy, who took the time to email me this week to tell me he was having trouble trying to get to our Patreon page. |
| 1:31.2 | And if he was having trouble, I'm sure there were at least 10 more people who were having trouble. |
| 1:35.4 | What I've never mentioned on the show before was that getting to our Patreon page is actually a two-step process. |
| 1:40.9 | I always gave people the first step, which was to go to aviation newstalk.com |
| 1:44.9 | slash awesome, but I never told you that once you got there, you need to then click on another |
| 1:49.7 | link on that page to get to the Patreon page. Well, I have fixed that. So now it truly is a one-step |
| 1:55.1 | process. So if you've tried to get to the page before and didn't succeed, try it again. Just type |
| 2:00.1 | in your browser, AviationNewstalk.com slash succeed, try it again. Just type in your browser, |
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