Originally Posted by
lgaflyer
If you have really read my post like you said you did, you would know that I already made it out and flying the line. I have always stated that I'm speaking from personal experience, and stuff that I have seen or people told me. Do you really think that there is no injustice in the training dept? And that everything is fair? Then I suggest that you look up the Mike Hoeper lawsuit
He couldn't pass his checkride, the company gave him several chances with different instructors. A lot of the 146 guys struggled several were let go.
He went nuts, the company knew he was an FFDO and reported it. The manager who reported it was the guy who hired me. Couldn't have been a nicer guy at that company (he now works for the FAA).
This lawsuit was more about giving airlines immunity for reporting incidents like the above than defamation.
If an armed pilot went nuts on the staff, and boarded a flight soon afterward, would you want him on your flight? We don't even allow drunk people on board.
This incident has absolutely nothing to do with initial training and the failure rate. There is one guy on here who had issues with training yet the vast majority of us on here had zero and in fact praise the training there.
I knew guys who failed checkrides at AWAC. All of them, in one way or another, deserved it. Sorry that's harsh, but it's reality.
If you have the physical ability to fly the airplane, and the attitude that you want to be there, you'll make it.
When I went through, I had a green instructor, and had the hardest checkpilot at the time (Clint M...back then he was a hard ass) and both my sim partner and I both passed no issues.