Originally Posted by
gazoo34
I’ll chime in here and say it is all over the board as far as getting through training at a regional, my SIM partner was an Army retire who bought a plane flew the 1500 hours in his plane came to a respectable regional (is there one??) with a good training program and failed his PC check. I was sitting next to him and he flew an above average check ride. I don’t think it was a failure but the 80 year old examiner had a quota according to other instructors.
I’m not a believer in the new flight for requirement but I am a believer in the "quality of the flight hours.” A lot of instrument flight is better than 1500 hours of VFR to a long runway.
just my humble opinion
Something stinks there. If you know you passed, you raise hell and take it up as far as you need to. A professional pilot knows what the standards are, so the checkrides aren't a mystery or guessing game. There are no "quotas", so something is fishy. If you know you are right and don't take action, then I guess you might lack the required assertiveness that comes along with the job of being an airline pilot.