Like I said, I am not a grad but around 70% of my classmates came from MAPD. They are great people, they all interviewed, and were hired b/c they are good pilots with a strong ability to learn.

The good news is, they fly with captains with plenty of flight time who help them aclimate to the job. True, it takes them 2-4 years to meet upgrade requirements, but by the time they do, they are very good at what they do.

Most of the MAPD guys are sent to the CRJ, an airplane that all of them have taken the systems class for, and have roughly 40 hours of sim time in, from the right and left seat. They have already completed a mock oral exam, and taken different versions of the written tests that the rest of us hadn't seen before.