Originally Posted by
Blackwing
Eh, one guy in my class was not given a fair shake at ALL. He got sick in the middle of sim to the point where he spent a couple days in the hospital, then when he came back it was apparent that his previous instructor had not followed the training syllabus. He wasn’t recommended for the PV and the company told him he’d have to roll back to the next class to get additional sim time—and he would have to repeat ground school with them. He passed on that generous offer and at my suggestion called Mesa, where he did fine.
The problem is not with training singling out certain people for failure. The problem is that a few pilots come through time to time completely naive and unprepared for sim training. Many times it's due to lack of experience, knowledge, or plain skill. When they wash out of their first training program, they usually succeed at the next one because they're already mentally prepared and know what to expect. In other words, the first company ends up being practice for the second company.