I wasn't on site more than a year ago, and neither of us has access to hiring or applicant stats that would be necessary to draw any sort of factual conclusions about whether or not new-hire experience is directly resulting in a higher wash-out rate.

I AM saying that there are training program issues that affect everyone. Doesn't matter how many 121 hours you have, when a kid with 500 hours is teaching the academics you're getting cheated, period. When the training department tells a trainee who lost over half the syllabus-directed study time through no fault if his own, that they need to suck it up and fail like a man, that is a situation that affects every trainee regardless of experience.

I don't know how many hours the new guys are showing up with. Neither do you. So don't try to make up stuff and attribute it to me.