This is not, as they say, rocket science. Success is bred through good study habits. AWAC has been flying the CRJ since the 1990s, the training program works.

The quality of instructors may ebb and flow slightly, but there is no crisis. If you come prepared as we pound away on you in indoc/systems to be...you will pass.

If you have training issues and have to return, during that time off, you are being paid to stay sharp. That means studying until you are called back. It may be boring, but do you want the job or not?

The line pilots are supposed to study too; we teach this material to be used out on the line, not only when it is time for recurrent. If you approach it that way, should there be a gap in training, the readjustment should be minimal.