Very true shack. This girl was jumpseating with us and told us that a lot of her class didn't make it. WOM is dangerous though. At first I figured it would be Houston with Mr. Horne nailing them but it turns out these people were from STL. They were spread out over the CRJ and ERJ classes. The massive failure I was talking about was said to be the CRJ class. The girl herself said around half her class didn't make it out of the ERJ. Made my jaw drop considering we had no where near those amounts out of HOU.

I do agree the worst things is the instructors not knowing the company's procedures very well. You learn how to fly the plane, which for this thing is easy, but when you start saying something in the sim and the check airman ask, "Why'd you say that?" it sets a bad tone in there. Saying, "That's how I was trained" doesn't get you very far. You still aren't doing it the company way. Two of the instructors we had were just hired to fly the corporate versions in Kuwait making an arm and a leg so our training went through the floor. Everyday we had a new ground instructor either skipping tons of stuff to get to what he wanted or they'd walk in and go over everything we had just done the day before. Just had the feeling that they hadn't been doing it too long.