Originally Posted by
tennisguru
.....r no regional today is developing a training program to crush new hires coming through. In fact, quite the opposite is true as most programs are tailored to a 500-1000 hour CFI with no jet experience. That said, at some point no training program can make up for a lack of drive, hard work, ATTITUDE, and pilot skills, and they have to cut someone loose.
If anything, the regionals are being negligent for passing along marginal pilots who honestly should have been washed out, but were instead given far too many chances until they finally passed.
In this day and age, if you flunk out of initial at a regional you truly earned it.
Mesa's training dept was great about helping the handful of low timers in my class along. A few of us had to cover turbine engine 101 with a couple of 1000 hr Florida CFIs at the hotel after class because they had no experience with turbine engines. I was happy to help out a fellow classmate who was moving up from a C-172.