Originally Posted by
AV8ER
TSA is pretty tough. My class only had about 50% make it through. I heard though that some of the recent classes are having better luck though...maybe standards were lowered, I don't know. It was pretty much a sink or swim environment when I went through.
This is NOT typical, although a very few training programs are notorious for this sort of thing (mesa dash-8 for example). Most programs that hire relatively experienced pilots have a 10% wash rate. I understand that this increases somewhat with low-time new hires, but nothing like 50%.