<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Arial;">There is a projected shortage of 50,000 commercial pilots by 2030 \u2014 assuming COVID ever eases off. So, analogous to the fervid recruitment of COBOL programmers, they are trying to recruit anyone who has either had a pilot's license or a subscription to any kind of flying magazine.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">I have a friend with a drug conviction \u2014 about the only thing that will disqualify you from getting a pilot's license. He has been recruited, with assurance that the company will be able to get around the law on that point.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Like you, the day I finished such a course, I would be several years past the mandatory retirement age for commercial pilots. (But they will probably ease that if the shortage gets bad enough.)<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">davew<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div>On Wed, Aug 12, 2020, at 7:53 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div dir="auto"><div>I just got an email from a flight training program offering me a nine month course to get a multi engine commercial license. They don't read the Friam listsrv, I hope. I'm too old in any case.<br></div><div><br></div><div><div>---<br></div><div>Frank C. Wimberly<br></div><div>140 Calle Ojo Feliz, <br></div><div>Santa Fe, NM 87505<br></div><div><br></div><div>505 670-9918<br></div><div>Santa Fe, NM<br></div></div></div><div>- .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. .<br></div><div>FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv<br></div><div>Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 <a href="http://bit.ly/virtualfriam">bit.ly/virtualfriam</a><br></div><div>un/subscribe <a href="http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com">http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com</a><br></div><div>archives: <a href="http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/">http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/</a><br></div><div>FRIAM-COMIC <a href="http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/">http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/</a> <br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div></body></html>