Originally Posted by
ItnStln
How does only having a high school education or having a criminal history correlate to being a bad pilot? I can see a few checkride failures, but that can just be someone who was nervous or a bad test taker.
It doesn’t correlate.
Ive come to understand that doesn’t matter though. Public perception matters more than reality.
The traveling public needs to think that the person driving their airplane is very intelligent, always responsible and highly competent as a pilot. That’s why companies prefer to hire college educated folks, with clean backgrounds and no checkride failures. It eliminates potential headlines should anything ever go wrong.