Originally Posted by
KyberCrystal
The training is terrible and some of the examiners are @#$%^'s
Sometimes you get a class that doesn't work together and you get a high failure rate. You will have to work together and go beyond what training you're given to pass. In my class it was a 70% pass the first time around, only 90% made it to IOE.
Both of the examiners I had (oral and sim type ride) were fair...very thorough, but fair.
There were rumors of terrible examiners, but no one in our class had them.
I know it varies from class to class.
In our class of 15: 5 total didn't make it...
2 failed the oral - none of us were surprised - and 2 failed the sim (1 we were surprised, the other not)...one failed IOE...we were all impressed that he made it that far.
In the class ahead of us, only 1 out of 10 didn't make it.
Large percentage of the new hires were military rotorheads. (Bonuses can directly pay for the training.)
Some of them had trouble with the sim.