Originally Posted by
Boomer
At the Delta-owned puppymill where I got my ratings, busts were only bad because it cost you another 350 bucks. Nobody mentioned they would haunt you forever.
Instructors were graded by how many hours their students were taking as well as their failure rate. As long as you were averaging a 70% pass rate, the push was to get them done.
The school I worked at (while not a pilot mill) had a similar mentality. Everyone (all in house examiners included) kept up with the "it's a part 141 school, checkride failures here do not count." Recently that mentality did start to change now that people who graduated with several "Stage check" failures were having hard time getting jobs.