FRANKLYWNOW - Workforce Wednesday: Aviation careers

From pilots and dispatchers to air traffic controllers, the Alaska labor department projects the need for more than 4,000 workers in the aviation sector over the next few years.

Cari-Ann Ketterling with the Alaska Process Industry Careers Consortium (APICC) and Ravn Alaska’s Chief Pilot, Aaron Rocereta, joined Daybreak Wednesday to talk aviation careers.

“The aviation field as a whole here in Alaska offers about 47,000 jobs,” Ketterling said. “And we’re about eight times more likely than our counterparts in the Lower 48 to take a flight.”

Rocereta says he got his start in aviation in the 10th grade when he volunteered to wash planes at a local flight school.

“From there I got flight lessons at a reduced rate,” he recalled. “I remember it was like driving a car, but 3D. Everything got really interesting from there.”

Watch the video above to hear more about his journey.

For more information on APICC, click here.

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