Originally Posted by
ghilis101
that being said, an instructor can also make a students life a living hell. any instructor can take even the best pilot and find a way to cause him or her to fail a checkride. not saying that it happens more than rarely, but those instructors can turn your profile ugly real quick.
100% true. The mesa dash-8 training staff was (and still is as far as I know) well know for pre-selecting failures. Not just new-hires, but also line pilots who managed to PO one of the dash good-ol-boyz would be guaranteed to fail their next several PCs. It was common for pilots to quit when they found out that the "word was out" on them.