Originally Posted by
scambo1
I think your concerns are not well founded. While most pilots cant even imagine how someone could fail recurrent, apparently there are "pilots" who go into it as a 50/50 proposition.
IOW, nobody goes into training to fail, but some folks apparently don't have the tools to regularly pass. Now, its 3 strikes...And GG moves up in his category.
The last I saw, we have about a 99.5% pass rate on checking events. Out of 12,000ish pilots, that's more than a couple that ball it up.