Originally Posted by
downtownkid
I need some people's advice. I was at a regional airline earlier this year, and I failed my checkride, and got booted out of ground school. I am going to try to apply for other regional jobs like AE, and advice anyone has? Do you guys think it will affect me really bad? However when I failed the checkride it wasn't really fair what happened, and let's just say I got the worst guy in the place when that happened.
Cheers!
Did You failed the sim part or the "Ground school"? The "Innitial training" is "Ground school", "Sim training" and IOE I think............
I think the ground school ends with the Oral and you have to pass the Oral to start the Sim so I guess you failed the Sim part during your "Innitial New Hire training"...............
Now the important is if you did the checkride twice.
If you did then you have it on your FAA records and that can be a problem.
It is nasty to let a pilot do the checkride twice if he is not ready and he fails. (The company knows) That is playing with the pilots career as it gets into the FAA records. A good company will not release you for the Checkride if you are not ready for it.
AE are very negative to all that have failed, left or had problems during former 121 training. You cannot even have a number wrong on the application or any lapse in your background or anything.
I would not waste my time on them. Do research and see who is most open minded among the Regionals and who seems to understand that pilots are humans and can get into problems and learn from it.