06-20-2025, 11:12 AM
(06-19-2025, 11:02 AM)SammyOES Wrote:(06-19-2025, 10:49 AM)tomh009 Wrote: There are only 200-300 new commercial pilot licences issued per year at the moment, but the commercial pilot workforce is aging fast, so there will be a need for that to increase substantially. So, there is potential for WWFC to grow substantially to meet that demand.
I hadn’t realized the drop from Covid. From over 1,000 a year to a couple hundred. Although it seems like the data is from 2022 and so we are seeing Covid more than anything else. Particularly given the lead time for a commercial license and the severe blow covid had to aviation. It’ll be interesting to see the numbers of the people that started during the post-COVID aviation boom.
Not sure what numbers WWFC was using for their 20%.
WWFC numbers are of the total pilot population so that will not change as fast as the annual new pilot numbers.