Originally Posted by
champpilot59
...Have u thought it could possibly be the clowns that are getting hired now bc of the new regs and lack of viable candidates? There are people here now that couldn't have sniffed a job a few years ago. I flew with someone not long ago that I had to take the plane from 2 legs in a row. According to him, he was the one who excelled in his new-hire group. Not much any hiring committee can do with peeps like that to choose from.
So do you imply also the historical AWAC training failure rate was much lower, such as the minimal 10% achieved by better training and recruiting departments? I see some logic in your idea the quality of recruits correlates to success, no stretch there, but I definitely find it a stretch to think the ATP rule is causing a higher failure rate at AWAC by decreasing the quality of its applicant pool. Applicants all have more flying experience now, not less. Quite to the contrary I suspect AWAC is not taking enough time and effort to train its new recruits before showing them the door.