So too many checkride busts are a career killer due in part to 3407. Thats understandable seeing how the media who knows everything runs wild with that. What really surprises me is how many people I know who have washed out of a formal 121 program and have gone on with little or no issue to find employment at other 121's. Are airlines not worried about some guy with a washout on his record burning a whole in the ground and the media not running wild with that?? "Pilot who wasn't good enough to fly at XYZ airline, was flying airplane for ABC Airline" Wouldn't one assume given the implications of that headline that it would be far more difficult to get a job with awashout rather than a couple busts working on their private ticket?