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When I arrived in Houston I went to the Hotel lobby bar for a burger. There were a dozen or so pilots going through training there. There was one topic of discussion - IAH training, and how poor it was. That dominated most pilot discussions for the next 8 weeks. This included every single student, whether U-hire, new hire, etc. The newbie ex-military guys didn't know what to expect so they didn't say much.

The U-hires you are flying with are just being polite and exercising good CRM. I don't have to do either on an internet board.

Again, this is nothing against the individual pilot instructors, but the poor system that they work under. The instructors all had good attitudes.