Originally Posted by
JamesNoBrakes
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.
There are no official quotas, but I know of one 121 outfit which recently came under pressure from their CMO due to very high pass rate on AQP recurrent. Naturally recurrent got harder after that.