Seeing a lot of PMs about getting into the industry, will start posting industry stuff whenever I see it. Lots of panicking in the aviation world as we eye the impending boomer retirements with terror.
We got reliant on them to the point they started gatekeeping the entry level carrier jobs as a First Officer like they were captains - yes, just as you now need a doctorate’s just to get an entry level job, so too does the first-year new hire. He has to get his ATP as if he’s a captain, all thanks to that stupid 2009 law (caused by a woman).
This graph should look delicious to you. I wouldn’t even worry too much about automation eliminating you yet, no matter the advances they won’t be able to go pilot-free any time soon, even if you have to act as a babysitter. Besides, planes are so expensive they can’t just make new ones - most of our smaller, non-airline stuff is more than 25 years old, if not older. You can’t just retrofit a 1978 Beech Duchess with fully automated tesla autopilot.
