Blaming the training department for failures is rationalizing the fact that we are hiring lesser qualified pilots and this is the result.

Guys busting orals in greater numbers than before? 5 years ago there wasn't a nice oral study guide, now there is. So how is training for the oral gotten worse? The majority of our APDs are the same APDs over the last 5 years, asking the same oral questions, and guys failing more than ever before. Guys are getting a much longer leash in training than they did 5 years ago, some allowed to redo the entire ground school. Never would you see that 5 years ago, but they need bodies, so they keep "sending them up" until they can pass.

Its been said time and time again, this is not a training program that is designed for low time pilots with little to no experience in 121, crew environment, fast paced training, high stress, jet systems.

When 25% of a class fails their check ride, this isn't the fault of instructors, its the fact that the training system is and always has been a fast paced rush job and it is glaringly obvious this doesn't work any longer.

Ill be honest, I couldn't care less that guys are failing. Its not like they made the training program harder, its easier than before. Let guys fail and leave, show the company that pilots are not as easy to attract as hanging a "Now Hiring" sign in the window down in Miramar.

Until the company decides to pay the pilots, guys will continue to fail because $38 will only get you so much in todays market. So let them fail, sounds cold, but its our only leverage we have now, the school house. Failing a training program isn't the death punch it was before and many of these failures can easily go back to a regional and make more money. While there, they can build up some more experience that they may have lacked at 2200TT when they applied here.