Pilotshortagecausing problemsforpassengers

Thelackofpilotsisaffectingpeople’ s planerides,includingDHSstudents’

By:TerrenceGillespie&WillowNusbaum

In recent years, a large number of pilots have began to retire due, in part, to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to this, there have been an increasing lack of new pilots joining the workforce.This has resulted in many people’s flights being delayed, or in some cases completely canceled.

Socialmediaalgorithms influenceDHSstudents

Artificialintelligenceraisesquestions abouthowgettingnewsfromsocialmedia caninfluencepeople’sbeliefs

By:BradenTricola

Discovery High School students have an opportunity to learn from the internet, or to be fooled by it. DHS’ students and staff—who are primary examples in a larger issue concerning how media is presented to people—tend to be confident in their own individual ability to figure out the truth and not in the people around them. Nobody wants to be wrong, but we are all human and all biased.

The public, especially the latest generations, often get their information from headlines and short videos. For example,TikTok, an app designed for short-form videos, had its full release in August 2018. With videos on TikTok being primarily under a minute long, people who saw the chance to spread ideas on the app were forced to shorten everything down to the bare minimum.

Almost anything can be faked, from political news to high school drama.

In order to retain their users for longer periods of time, social media apps like Tiktok, Instagram, YouTube and Facebook employ the help of artificial intelligence (AI) to curate the content they present to each individual user.

These AI models use data from the content a user has already interacted with to determine the content they’ll show to each user next.This can create an

According to Airside Magazine, some airlines increased their payment for newer pilots to entice new flight school graduates to start working as soon as possible.This effort, however, did not prove to be fruitful—as the small number of current pilots still dwindled. In later times, however, this may prove beneficial and help to resolve the shortage of pilots.

Aliferia Gonzalez, a student at Discovery High School (DHS), believes that the lower number of pilots have had no effects or delays on her flights. While her most recent flight to Southern California was fine, her flight back to Washington had issues—there was a layover by two hours and five minutes.

Max Yoshida, another student at DHS, had a nce with only one minor delay. I think there was like a delay, a 30 minute delay, I don't know, they just said it was delayed over the intercom,” said Yoshida. The number of flight cancellations and delays have increased in recent years.According to the United States Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the percentage of delayed flights out of all flights increased from 16% in 2021 to 20% in 2022, meaning flight delays have increased by nearly 4% in the past completed year. Beyond percentages, the number of canceled flights has nearly doubled.

Aside from COVID-19, one major factor that have led up to this shortage was a lack of pilots from the military. In the past, many airlines hired pilots who had received aviation training through the Air

According to a 2019 report from the United States Department of Defence (DOD), the military has had a significant deficit of pilots in recent years.

“[The DoD] now faces a pilot shortfall in excess of 3,000 pilots, which have been several years in the making,” stated the report.“Since 2006, the Air Force had fewer pilots than authorized, and the supply-demand gap continued to grow.”