Originally Posted by
John Carr
Because as much as it sucked, as much of a black eye as it left on the industry, it's as mentioned; PFT was more a norm and NOT an exception. And contrary to what Kit Darby used to preach, PTF'ing did NOT hurt careers. There's a metric crap ton of pilots that PFT'd at any one of the various commuters/regionals listed, and it in and of itself DIDNT harm those guys. Many that are probably CA's and various legacies right now. As well as FedEx, UPS, name it.
Kit probably did not like it because typically the buy your Type crowd did not have as much need for his services. After all, they had been trained using documents and procedures similar to what the airline used and had more of an idea what the employer was looking for than a two hour interview prep would have provided... just a guess.