Originally Posted by
Excargodog
Are you serious? The USAF was in the process of sending him to instruct brand new second lieutenants in jets. He was going to get three landings (or quite likely a takeoff, a landing, and two touch and goes) for currency, four days to read the training syllabus, and be back at work on Monday. as a supervisor.
Any regional - decent or otherwise - will fall all over themselves to hire him, even knowing he’ll probably be gone before he’s off probation. Compared to everyone else they’ve got coming in the door he is as close to a zero training risk as they’ve seen in a damn long time...
The failure and washout rate for guys like this are actually pretty high at the regionals. Especially if they haven't flown in several years. They usually don't make it to the sims. Training at the regionals are not at all like mainline training.