Originally Posted by
Adlerdriver
I second this.
What many in the industry (141 schools, airline training departments, unions, etc) seem to lose sight of is that no one is entitled to a career in aviation. It doesn't matter how badly they want it, how much money they have to fund their training, how many diversity driven lawyers are on their side or whatever sob story they can use to drum up sympathy.
Some people aren't cut out for this line of work and that's that. We'd all be better off if that was enforced stringently.
This why airlines so favor military pilots... they did ten years in a training and operational environment where you could not buy fourth, fifth, six, etc chances.
Foreign airlines try to replicate that with complex screening of ab initio applicants, but that isn't a perfect prediction and they still don't get the operational experience to mold their statistically ideal personalities into good aviators.