Well, until very recently many of these programs were seeing most of their applicants come with previous 121 or 135 time or, at least, quite a bit more ME time. But as applicants with those times got sparse, they increasingly we're dealing with people with mostly SE time - and much of that in slow lightweight fixed gear trainer aircraft, a bare 25 hours of ME, and not a whole lot of complicated time. Worse yet, the hiring rate at the majors had robbed the regional's of their senior instructors as they got their CJOs at a time when they needed to do far more new hire training than many had previously needed. So you got newbie instructors teaching relatively vast numbers of new hires with a syllabus intended for more experience newbies. Higher attrition was probably inevitable under those circumstances.


You mean after washing out of a 121 program? I'd go 135. Ameriflight can put you into aircraft faster/more demanding than typical CFI work. After a year of that give the 121 world another go. It'll be much easier the second time around.

From the Ameriflight website:

And it doesn't have to be Ameriflight, but something similar would make for an easier transition.