Originally Posted by boeingsky

Well I have been down in training now for 3 months and have some news coming directly out of CLT home of the glorious training department here at Piedmont Airlines. S*i* is hitting the fan after a whole new hire class walks out on the ground school after being accused of cheating on the take home QPT test. Another class also in training at this time, was shaken down for gouge info. Literally forced to open their personal belongings, notes, folders and backpacks so that certain people in the training department could inspect the content.

Three people out of the class initial class i mentioned were accused of cheating on this take-home test and were shipped up to SBY today. When told to pack their "sh*t and go to SBY" the rest of their class got up and walked out on the instructor. Training department told management that they did not walk out so as to cover up all the bull that has been going on with captain upgrades and new hires alike. One of the three being accused was a mid 30’s black female fed (which the training department did not know) The two others are retired from the big iron but have heavy pull.. Also in this class is a 777 DE, retired state trooper and a former WWE wrestler. The training department got belligerent with these guys and they fought back. 4 different fisdos have been called on all these matters. The class that has walked out on the training department is mostly likely to resign as a whole within the next two days.

As for me I have had a whole different situation going on but was also asked to resign today due to reasons that I will explain later in a different post that I am preparing. I am going to share my training experience so as new hires can make a educated decision before coming to Piedmont. It will be of interesting reading for all the ROA and MDT based pilots out their. In the end both incidents are connected in a way. I will be posting all of my experience and my recommendations for those that do choose to come here so that you can be successful. It is a difficult program because it is made to be. More info on that later but Kutos to the pilot group they are a great bunch of guys.