Europe's largest independent flying college says that airline sponsorship of pilot training and extensive interest by the young in piloting as a career are dying out. "This is the first time we have had to go out and stimulate interest in taking up piloting as a career," says Anthony Petteford, managing director of UK-based Oxford Aviation Training. Oxford quotes several factors that are reducing the attractiveness of piloting as a career. These include: closed cockpit doors making the career less visible; increased automation changing the nature of the job; and instability of the career and lifestyle.
Source: Flight International
