Sep/21Airlines could find experienced pilots in short supply
The supply of pilots could face a bottleneck in the U.S. after Congress introduced a rule requiring 1,500 flight hours for pilots of any commercial passenger-carrying airliner. In some other countries, ab initio pilots are allowed to fly commercially with fewer hours. According to Boeing, there will be a global need for 448,000 new airline pilots over the next 20 years. FlightGlobal.com (9/21)

-Korea Aerospace Industries will fly its single engine KC-100 piston-engine aircraft soon in preparation for entering the market in 2013. The four-passenger aircraft, claimed to fly at 240 KTAS, went undiscouvere until Hartzell announce it was building a properller for it. The aircraft uses a three-blade Hartzell composite propeller on Continental TSIOF-550 engine with full authority digital engine control (FADEC), reted at 315 hosepower at 2500 rpm.

from AOPA.