Grounded Pilots Land Jobs In Agriculture

Grounded pilots are literally going back to the land in Australia where they’re finding work driving huge agricultural harvesters. Australia is expecting a bumper crop of grains and other commodities at the same time that the COVID-19 pandemic is causing an acute labor shortage on farms. And while it might seem like a strange transition from the cockpit of an airliner to the cab of lumbering farm machine, there are a lot of parallel skills, said farmer Amanda Thomas, who set up a Facebook page to recruit out-of-work pilots. “Pilots spend a lot of time operating machinery. That’s kind of their core job,” Thomas told the Guardian. “And whether it’s an airplane or an agricultural machine, it’s all the same.”


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