This Episode Features A Presentation By Kit Darby, AIR Inc. (Part
One In A Series Examining A Ponderous Issue)
We've been hearing about it for years... a pilot shortage... a
critical one, at that. For many in the aviation community, it
sounded like good news... at least if you were on the bottom rungs
of the pilot hiring ladder and working desperately to climb your
way up. However; after engaging in discussions throughout the
industry over the last year and in attending a particularly pointed
(and very well-organized) presentation at the FAA Forecast
Conference some months ago, ANN and Aero-TV are left with the
troubling impression that aviation has a BIG problem on it
"The rational approach didn't happen, primarily because
for OSTP and OMB, retiring the Shuttle is a jihad rather than an
engineering and program management decision."
Source: NASA Administrator, Mike Griffin, in an
email leaked to the Orlando Sentinel, in which a number of his
concerns, over the future of NASA manned spceflight operations,
were voiced.
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