While the idea that I must have had problems in training to have a valid opinion about its quality blends seamlessly into your narrative, it isn't true. I did just fine. I think it is also disingenuous to insinuate that I must have a wholly anti Cal perspective to criticize anything when in fact, I found most of my experiences with the pilot instructors, my LCA and the flight attendants I've flown with so far to be exceptionally good. That doesn't mean that we aren't dropping the ball WRT to the 737 course.

We have (as a collective pilot group) had some pretty close calls. A 767-400 landing with under 20 minutes of fuel in Guam. A 737 scraping a wingtip in EWR. Airplanes landing with emergency fuel after accepting direct routings into the jet stream and overflying acceptable fuel stops when the fuel situation became critical. Close CFIT incidences. We better start looking at least a little bit inward WRT to the way we're doing business as a pilot group.

Scott