About PilotCore Global

Founded on experience most advisers only have one piece of

PilotCore Global brings airline leadership, flight operations and global pilot recruitment together into one independent view of your pilot workforce.

Torkel Waak, Founder & Managing Director of PilotCore Global
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Torkel Waak

Founder & Managing Director · PilotCore Global

An aviation executive with a rare combination of airline leadership, aviation staffing expertise and extensive flight operations experience. More than 40 years in commercial aviation, over 19,000 flight hours, and 25 years helping build and expand a global aviation staffing business serving airlines across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. He founded PilotCore Global to bring that combined experience to growing airlines — an independent view grounded in operational reality.

Captain, B747-400 Chief Pilot, B737 fleet Deputy Managing Director, Airline Operations Director & Shareholder, global aviation staffing Founder & MD, PilotCore Global
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The experience behind the firm

Founded on experience across the flight deck, the boardroom and the market

PilotCore Global is built on a rare combination of three full careers in aviation — the foundation of how the firm advises airlines on their pilot workforce.

From the flight deck
19,000 hrs

Airline captain

Line and management pilot experience across many aircraft types including the B747-400 and B737NG, across long-haul, charter and scheduled operations.

From the boardroom
Exec

Airline leadership

Chief Pilot, airline executive and Deputy Managing Director — decisions on fleet, operations and workforce from the top table.

From the market
25 yrs

Aviation staffing

A quarter-century helping build an aviation recruitment organisation from regional activity into a global business.

Four decades, combined into one independent view of how many pilots you need, of what mix, when — and how to keep them.

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Start with a Pilot Workforce Readiness Check

No cost · No commitment · 30 minutes

A 30-minute video call with PilotCore Global, focused on one fundamental question: are your pilot workforce plans aligned with your network growth and additional aircraft plans?

Together, we take a high-level look at your current pilot resources and planned fleet and network development — identifying potential gaps in pilot numbers, recruitment lead times, command upgrades, instructor capacity, training and retention. There is no cost and no commitment; the purpose is simply to identify potential pilot workforce risks before they become operational problems.

30 minutes today could identify a pilot workforce gap 12–36 months before it affects your operation.

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